[The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Duke’s Children CHAPTER XIV 9/21
"I can be useful at Newmarket, and so you'll stick to me." "Look here, Major Tifto," said Silverbridge; "if you are dissatisfied, you and I can easily separate ourselves." "I am not dissatisfied," said the little man, almost crying. "Then don't talk as though you were.
As to Silverbridge, I shall not want you there.
When I asked you I was only thinking what would be pleasant to both of us; but since that I have remembered that business must be business." Even this did not reconcile the angry little man, who as he turned away declared within his own little bosom that he would "take it out of Silverbridge for that." Lord Silverbridge and Tregear went down to the borough together, and on the journey something was said about Lady Mary,--and something also about Lady Mabel.
"From the first, you know," said Lady Mary's brother, "I never thought it would answer." "Why not answer ?" "Because I knew the governor would not have it.
Money and rank and those sort of things are not particularly charming to me.
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