The Good Soldier again

October 27, 2009

“But, at any rate, there is always Leonora to cheer you up; I don’t want to sadden you. Her husband is quite an economical person of so normal a figure that he can get quite a large proportion of his clothes ready-made. That is the great desideratum of life, and that is the end of my story. The child is to be brought up a Romanist.

“It suddenly occurs to me that I have forgotten to say how Edward met his death.”

(Ford Madox Ford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1990, pp. 292-3.)

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