[Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookDoctor Thorne CHAPTER I 5/30
As this lady's character will, it is hoped, show itself in the following pages, we need not now describe it more closely. It is not a bad thing to be son-in-law to a potent earl, member of Parliament for a county, and a possessor of a fine old English seat, and a fine old English fortune.
As a very young man, Frank Gresham found the life to which he was thus introduced agreeable enough.
He consoled himself as best he might for the blue looks with which he was greeted by his own party, and took his revenge by consorting more thoroughly than ever with his political adversaries.
Foolishly, like a foolish moth, he flew to the bright light, and, like the moths, of course he burnt his wings.
Early in 1833 he had become a member of Parliament, and in the autumn of 1834 the dissolution came. Young members of three or four-and-twenty do not think much of dissolutions, forget the fancies of their constituents, and are too proud of the present to calculate much as to the future.
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