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Quotation from A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
“It was what he most held against Mrs. Forrester; that she was not willing to immolate herself, like the widow of all these great men, and die with the pioneer period to which she belonged; that she preferred life on any terms”
A Lost Lady, Part Two, Ch. IX
The novel's sharpest statement of Niel's grievance, which the following pages invite the reader to weigh against his later gratitude.
Citation: "It was what he most held against Mrs. Forrester; that she was not willing to immolate herself, like the widow of all these great men, and die with the pioneer period to which she belonged; that she preferred life on any terms" — Willa Cather, A Lost Lady, Part Two, Ch. IX. (id cather-a-lost-lady-q6)
