She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belongin
She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance. - Persuasion, Chapter 24 -- source link
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