Whether Mrs Williams liked her daughters at all was doubtful: she loved them, of course, and had ‘sacrificed everything for them’, but there was not much room in her composition for liking – it was too much taken up with being right
Patrick O'Brian
Whether Mrs Williams liked her daughters at all was doubtful: she loved them, of course, and had ‘sacrificed everything for them’, but there was not much room in her composition for liking – it was too much taken up with being right