Allusions To Other Works
- Music is mentioned with Claude Debussy, and Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold and Die Walküre.
- Valentine dismisses Ida's French as learnt from Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet.
- Uncle Johnathan is said to have written poems in the manner of Thomas Moore.
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“There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses, in town and country, that has not got into literature, and never will, but that keeps the earth sweet; that saves on superfluities, and spends on essentials; that goes rusty, and educates the boy; that sells the horse, but builds the school; works early and late, takes two looms in the factory, three looms, six looms, but pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm, and then goes back cheerfully to work again.”
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