"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."

Woman, Women, Honor, Inheritance

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"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."

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