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Unmanned by marriage and the Metropolis in Gissing's "The Whirlpool."(George Gissing)(Critical essay)

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20060922
Author:Radford, Andrew

[Hugh] Carnaby was a fair example of the wellbred, well-fed Englishman--tall, brawny, limber, not uncomely, with a red neck, a powerful jaw, and a keen eye. Something more of repose, of self-possession, and a slightly more intellectual brow, would have made him the best type of conquering, civilizing Briton. He came of good family, but had small inheritance; his tongue told of age-long domination; his physique and carriage showed the horseman, the game-stalker, the nomad. Hugh had never bent over books since the day when he declined the university and got leave to join Colonel ...

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