[Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookDoctor Thorne CHAPTER XI 15/15
I must go early, too, so we'd better both be off to bed.
Tell Janet I must breakfast at half-past seven." "You couldn't take me, could you? I should so like to see that Sir Roger." "To see Sir Roger! Why, he's ill in bed." "That's an objection, certainly; but some day, when he's well, could not you take me over? I have the greatest desire to see a man like that; a man who began with nothing and now has more than enough to buy the whole parish of Greshamsbury." "I don't think you'd like him at all." "Why not? I am sure I should; I am sure I should like him, and Lady Scatcherd, too.
I've heard you say that she is an excellent woman." "Yes, in her way; and he, too, is good in his way; but they are neither of them in your way: they are extremely vulgar--" "Oh! I don't mind that; that would make them more amusing; one doesn't go to those sort of people for polished manners." "I don't think you'd find the Scatcherds pleasant acquaintances at all," said the doctor, taking his bed-candle, and kissing his niece's forehead as he left the room..
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