[The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Duke’s Children CHAPTER XIX 15/22
If you know of any one you need not tell him to be too sure because he has a good income." "There's Popplecourt.
He's his own master, and, fool as he is, he knows how to keep his money." "I don't want a fool.
You must do better for me than Lord Popplecourt." "What do you say to Dolly Longstaff ?" "He would be just the man, only he never would take the trouble to come out and be married." "Or Glasslough ?" "I'm afraid he is cross, and wouldn't let me have my own way." "I can only think of one other;--but you would not take him." "Then you had better not mention him.
It is no good crowding the list with impossibles." "I was thinking of--myself." "You are certainly one of the impossibles." "Why, Lady Mab ?" "For twenty reasons.
You are too young, and you are bound to oblige your father, and you are to be wedded to Parliament,--at any rate for the next ten years.
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