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Esther Hargrave
An uncouth man, this son of a banker marries Milicent Hargrave because he claims he could not stand a wife who would check his desire to please himself at all times. At first one of Arthur Huntingdon’s most immoral and irresponsible friends, he later reforms, determined to be worthy of Milicent and a good father to their two children.
Ralph Hattersley Quotes in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The The Tenant of Wildfell Hall quotes below are all either spoken by Ralph Hattersley or refer to Ralph Hattersley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 32
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“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”
“But why complain at all, unless, because you are tired and dissatisfied?”
“To excuse my own failings, to be sure. Do you think I'll bear all the burden of my sins on my own shoulders, as long as there's another ready to help me, with none of her own to carry?”
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Ralph Hattersley Quotes in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The The Tenant of Wildfell Hall quotes below are all either spoken by Ralph Hattersley or refer to Ralph Hattersley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 32
Quotes
“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”
“But why complain at all, unless, because you are tired and dissatisfied?”
“To excuse my own failings, to be sure. Do you think I'll bear all the burden of my sins on my own shoulders, as long as there's another ready to help me, with none of her own to carry?”
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