“A phrase of his father's returned to him: you give a dog a bad name, and that dog is bad for life. (“Remember that, Joseph,”—with one hand on Pritchard's shoulder, and the other clasping a newborn puppy against his chest; the next day Pritchard dubbed the young thing Cromwell, and his father nodded once.)”
—The Luminaries, by Elenor Catton, pg. 165
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