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Sophronia is a woman who gets married in her 40s to Alfred Lammle, a man whom she believes is rich, although it turns out this was a lie. Sophronia tries to make the best of it, developing a scheme with Alfred to try to get some of the Podsnap family money by helping Fledgeby marry Georgiana. But Sophronia has an unexpected pang of conscience and secretly exposes her own plan so that it will fail. Despite her change of mind, Sophronia still suffers the consequences of her earlier greed, as she’s ultimately driven out of the country with Alfred due to their financial troubles.
Sophronia Lammle Quotes in Our Mutual Friend
The Our Mutual Friend quotes below are all either spoken by Sophronia Lammle or refer to Sophronia Lammle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 10
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So, the happy pair, with this hopeful marriage contract thus signed, sealed, and delivered, repair homeward. If, when those infernal finger-marks were on the white and breathless countenance of Alfred Lammle, Esquire, they denoted that he conceived the purpose of subduing his dear wife Mrs Alfred Lammle, by at once divesting her of any lingering reality or pretence of self-respect, the purpose would seem to have been presently executed. The mature young lady has mighty little need of powder, now, for her downcast face, as he escorts her in the light of the setting sun to their abode of bliss.
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Sophronia Lammle Quotes in Our Mutual Friend
The Our Mutual Friend quotes below are all either spoken by Sophronia Lammle or refer to Sophronia Lammle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 10
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So, the happy pair, with this hopeful marriage contract thus signed, sealed, and delivered, repair homeward. If, when those infernal finger-marks were on the white and breathless countenance of Alfred Lammle, Esquire, they denoted that he conceived the purpose of subduing his dear wife Mrs Alfred Lammle, by at once divesting her of any lingering reality or pretence of self-respect, the purpose would seem to have been presently executed. The mature young lady has mighty little need of powder, now, for her downcast face, as he escorts her in the light of the setting sun to their abode of bliss.
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