English literature (AIC)

“No, he’s giving us the rope -- so that we’ll hang ourselves.”

“If I could help her now, I would” and “I'll never, never do it again to anybody”

"young and fresh and charming and altogether out of place down there"

“There’ll be a public scandal... and who here will suffer for that more than I will?”

“First I blame the girl herself. Secondly, I blame the young man”

“Their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness all intertwined with our lives”

“I insisted / I made her take some money”

"I was in a furious temper” and “It was my own fault” and “I behaved badly too. I know I did”.

"time of steadily increasing prosperity”

“He’d be entirely responsible. [...] Compelled to confess in public his responsibility”