Janet's Repentance (Hesperus Classics)
Contributors: Kathryn Hughes (Foreword)
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781843911586
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Classics; Fiction / Classics; Clergy; England; Social life and customs
First sentence: 'No!' said lawyer Dempster, in a loud, rasping, oratorical tone, struggling against chronic huskiness, 'as long as my Maker grants me power of voice and power of intellect, I will take every legal means to resist the introduction of demoralizing, methodistical doctrine into this parish; I will not supinely suffer an insult to be inflicted on our venerable pastor, who has given us sound instruction for half a century.'