[Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookBarchester Towers CHAPTER VIII 4/12
But still, Papa, you'll have the dear old house and the garden ?" "My dear," said he, "it's worth twice the money;" and as he spoke he showed a jaunty kind of satisfaction in his tone and manner and in the quick, pleasant way in which he paced Eleanor's drawing-room. "It's worth twice the money.
I shall have the house and the garden and a larger income than I can possibly want." "At any rate, you'll have no extravagant daughter to provide for;" and as she spoke, the young widow put her arm within his, and made him sit on the sofa beside her; "at any rate, you'll not have that expense." "No, my dear, and I shall be rather lonely without her; but we won't think of that now.
As regards income, I shall have plenty for all I want.
I shall have my old house, and I don't mind owning now that I have felt sometimes the inconvenience of living in a lodging.
Lodgings are very nice for young men, but at my time of life there is a want of--I hardly know what to call it, perhaps not respectability--" "Oh, Papa! I'm sure there's been nothing like that.
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