"To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another."
"It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema."
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Source: William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition
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