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The Song of the Lark

Cather, Willa | Riverside, 1915

 

p. 320

Thea Kromberg (a great, though still young, singer) on a contented warbler: “[Thea] felt a deep contempt for her. She felt that Mrs. Priest ought to be reproved and even punished for her shortcomings; that she ought to be exposed–at least to herself–and not be permitted to live and shine in happy ignorance of what a poor thing it was she brought across so radiantly.”