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Humphrey Gould
Phyllis’s father, Dr. Grove, was once a professional, but his habits of solitary philosophical meditation reduced his income so greatly that he and Phyllis were forced to move to the countryside, no longer able to afford to live in a larger town. In the country, Dr. Grove has become more and more irritable and withdrawn, and he is unkind and oppressive to Phyllis. When rumors circulate that Humphrey may not plan on honoring his engagement to Phyllis, Dr. Grove refuses to believe them, instructing Phyllis to remain patient and loyal to the man who has shown her so little regard. He soon learns of Phyllis’s frequent conversations with a German soldier, and tells her she cannot go further than the garden wall without his permission. Dr. Grove, desiring even more control over his daughter, eventually decides Phyllis must leave the village to stay with her aunt until the soldiers have moved on from their camp, and his control over her extends to his directions on what to pack for her stay. He is “triumphant” when Humphrey returns, pleased by his (incorrect) assumption that his daughter will finally have a respectable marriage.
Dr. Grove/Phyllis’s Father Quotes in The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
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The daughter’s seclusion was great, but beyond the seclusion of the girl lay the seclusion of the father. If her social condition was twilight, his was darkness. Yet he enjoyed his darkness, while her twilight oppressed her.
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This account—though only a piece of hearsay, and as such entitled to no absolute credit—tallied so well with the infrequency of his letters and their lack of warmth, that Phyllis did not doubt its truth for one moment; and from that hour she felt herself free to bestow her heart as she should choose. Not so her father; he declared the whole story to be a fabrication.
Phyllis had not the smallest intention of disobeying him in her actions, but she assumed herself to be independent with respect to her feelings. She no longer checked her fancy for the Hussar, though she was far from regarding him as her lover in the serious sense in which an Englishman might have been regarded as such. The young foreign soldier was almost an ideal being to her, with none of the appurtenances of an ordinary house-dweller; one who had descended she knew not whither; the subject of a fascinating dream—no more.
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Dr. Grove/Phyllis’s Father Quotes in The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
The The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Grove/Phyllis’s Father or refer to Dr. Grove/Phyllis’s Father. 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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The daughter’s seclusion was great, but beyond the seclusion of the girl lay the seclusion of the father. If her social condition was twilight, his was darkness. Yet he enjoyed his darkness, while her twilight oppressed her.
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This account—though only a piece of hearsay, and as such entitled to no absolute credit—tallied so well with the infrequency of his letters and their lack of warmth, that Phyllis did not doubt its truth for one moment; and from that hour she felt herself free to bestow her heart as she should choose. Not so her father; he declared the whole story to be a fabrication.
Phyllis had not the smallest intention of disobeying him in her actions, but she assumed herself to be independent with respect to her feelings. She no longer checked her fancy for the Hussar, though she was far from regarding him as her lover in the serious sense in which an Englishman might have been regarded as such. The young foreign soldier was almost an ideal being to her, with none of the appurtenances of an ordinary house-dweller; one who had descended she knew not whither; the subject of a fascinating dream—no more.
