The Count of Monte Cristo (Chap. 92)
Alexandre Dumas
Table Talk (Vol II Essay IV)
William Hazlitt
Vanity Fair (Chap. 55)
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vol. II, Book I, Chap. X: “The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean”
Victor Hugo
Vol. I, Book IV, Chap. I: “One Mother Meets Another Mother”
Victor Hugo
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
Arthur Conan Doyle
English Traits (Chapter 7: Truth)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Widow and Mother
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vol. II, Book I, Chap. III: “The Eighteenth of June, 1815”
Victor Hugo