The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 2 of 2)
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 2 of 2)
                                            
                            By Edmund Yates
                            
                                14 Sep, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: Mr. Foljambe did not easily throw off the painful impression which his interview with Chudleigh Wilmot had made upon him. The old gentleman had always found Wilmot, though not an expansive, a singularly frank person; he had not indeed 
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                                                Brief Extract: Mr. Foljambe did not easily throw off the painful impression which his interview with Chudleigh Wilmot had made upon him. The old gentleman had always found Wilmot, though not an expansive, a singularly frank person; he had not indeed ever spoken much to him concerning his wife or his domestic affairs generally, but men do not do so habitually; and the men to whom their wives are most dear and important rarely mention them at all. The circumstance had therefore made no impression upon Mr. Foljambe, himself a confirmed old bachelor, who, though very kind and considerate to women and children, regarded them rather as ornamental trifles, with a tendency to degenerate into nuisances, than otherwise. Less