Though loved by his neighbor Laetitia Dale, this title character chooses to become engaged first to Constantia Durham, who runs away with the the soldier Harry Oxford, and then to Clara Middleton, who chooses to marry his cousin Vernon Whitford.
Though loved by his neighbor Laetitia Dale, this title character chooses to become engaged first to Constantia Durham, who runs away with the the soldier Harry Oxford, and then to Clara Middleton, who chooses to marry his cousin Vernon Whitford. Defeated, he courts Laetitia, and though she is no longer interested in him she consents to marry him if he will fund his relative Crossjay's entrance to the Marines. Such are the adventures of self- centred Willoughby Patterne in what novel by George Meredith?
Though loved by his neighbor Laetitia Dale, this title character chooses to become engaged first to Constantia Durham, who runs away with the the soldier Harry Oxford, and then to Clara Middleton, who chooses to marry his cousin Vernon Whitford.
The Egoist (accept Sir Willoughby Patterne early)