Word: rutherston
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...above its predecessors in its sincerity and candor, Honorable Estate is like them in the number of its characters as well as in the grim picture of English social decay that it communicates. It tells two major stories: one of Janet Rutherston, confused, vacillating, dissatisfied wife of a pompous churchman; the other of Ruth Alleyndene, intelligent, sensitive daughter of a manufacturer, who marries Janet's son. Janet's story, occupying the first part of the book, is the more convincing and original, despite the facts that it is mixed up with long digressions about the suffraget movement...
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