[The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Small House at Allington CHAPTER VI 5/33
And I may say that they had little cause for that kind of fear to which I allude.
It might be the lot of either of them to be ill-used by a man, but it was hardly possible that either of them should ever be insulted by one.
Lily, as may, perhaps, have been already seen, could be full of play, but in her play she never so carried herself that any one could forget what was due to her. And now Lily Dale was engaged to be married, and the days of her playfulness were over.
It sounds sad, this sentence against her, but I fear that it must be regarded as true.
And when I think that it is true,--when I see that the sportiveness and kitten-like gambols of girlhood should be over, and generally are over, when a girl has given her troth, it becomes a matter of regret to me that the feminine world should be in such a hurry after matrimony.
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