[The Crown of Life by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Crown of Life CHAPTER XVI 21/25
I have made a visit to my grandfather.
He likes me; he admires me because I have intelligence.
He will not live very long, that poor grandfather." Olga glanced at him, and met the queer calculating melancholy of his fine eyes. "Miss Hannaford, if some day I am rich, I shall of course live in England.
In what other country can one live? I shall have a house in the West End; I shall have a carriage; I shall nationalise--you say naturalise ?--myself, and be an Englishman, not a beggarly Italian.
And that will not be long.
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