"Mothers-in-law are ladies with daughters. A mother-in-law may be considered as the beard on the matrimonial oyster."
— Marcus Clarke

January 1, 1970

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"A Monograph", in The Austral Edition of the Selected Works of Marcus Clarke (Melbourne, 1890), p. xx