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Circumstance after circumstance combined to drive [my father] further from humanity (Edmund Gosse)


[My father] missed more than ever the sympathetic ear of my Mother; there was present to support him nothing of that artful, female casuistry which insinuates into the wounded consciousness of a man the conviction that, after all, he is right and all the rest of the world is wrong.

Edmund Gosse (Father and Son)

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