Remember when the children were small?

We’re so often taught to simply believe in ourselves—to trust our instincts—that to see a narrative in which second-guessing oneself and refusing one’s deepest impulses is a potential wellspring of charity and good is, in itself, noteworthy.

Blue-eyed, fair-haired and rosy-cheeked, she was not, it is true, either lithe or lath-like, but then had not Tommo once expressed a preference for breasty girls?

Down line over bridge completed 19th July 1852. Up line over bridge completed 18th April 1853.