[The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Last Chronicle of Barset CHAPTER II 11/19
A child about sixteen years of age!" "I am told she is nineteen." "What does it matter if she was fifty-nine? Think of what her bringing up has been.
Think what it would be to have all the Crawleys in our house for ever, and all their debts, and all their disgrace!" "I do not know that they have ever been disgraced." "You'll see.
The whole county has heard of the affair of this twenty pounds.
Look at that dear girl upstairs, who has been such a comfort to us.
Do you think it would be fit that she and her husband should meet such a one as Grace Crawley at our table ?" "I don't think it would do them a bit of harm," said Mrs.Grantly. "But there would be no chance of that, seeing that Griselda's husband never comes to us." "He was here the year before last." "And I never was so tired of a man in all my life." "Then you prefer the Crawleys, I suppose.
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