He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or tw — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
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He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.

— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
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