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looking for a Thomas Hardy quote

Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
edited April 2014 in Chit chat
I've been trying to track down a quote from a Thomas Hardy novel that's running around in my head. Although I've got all of his books I haven't been able to find it in any of those in which I thought it might be found, and I've spent half an hour on Google to no avail as well. So as a last and most ridiculously desperate effort I've decided to ask about it here.

The general gist of it is: "Thus she resolved to be charitable, and soon found her doorstep to be frequented by an assortment of rogues, vagabonds and scoundrels.". The actual sentence is longer than that, and the only words from my illustration which I'm sure do actually occur in the quote are "she" & "and" and some type of reference to charity.
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited April 2014
    I've read two or three of Hardy's novels but it doesn't ring any bells. I could ask Mrs Spoons (who's read all her novels) but she probably won't remember.

    I was going to ask which character the sentence referred to, but presumably if you knew that, you'd know where the quote came from!
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  • fogfog
    edited April 2014
    there is probably some "prose" (not micro) or "classics" forum somewhere that would be easy for them to know ? or try digital spy forum.. as they love all sorts of challenges.
  • chevchev
    edited April 2014
    http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/group-of-noble-dames/3/

    "As the poor lady could not ease her conscience this way, she determined at least to be charitable, and soon had the satisfaction of finding her porch thronged every morning by the raggedest, idlest, most drunken, hypocritical, and worthless tramps in Christendom."
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  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2014
    Yes, that's the one, thanks. I'd looked through A Group of Noble Dames as being one likely source, but I managed to miss it somehow. I had an idea that it was at the end of a chapter, but in fact it was a few pages back. I can finish my midnight Pot Noodle now.
  • fogfog
    edited April 2014
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    I can finish my midnight Pot Noodle now.

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  • mrmessymrmessy
    edited April 2014
    "Another fine mess you've gotten me into".
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  • guesserguesser
    edited April 2014
    mrmessy wrote: »
    "Another fine mess you've gotten me into".

    damnit! that's what I was going to post :lol:
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  • ewgfewgf
    edited April 2014
    guesser wrote: »
    damnit! that's what I was going to post :lol:

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