[The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Belton Estate CHAPTER XII 12/27
No, indeed.
No man should ever be made to regard her as a burden imposed upon him by an extorted promise! What;--let a man sacrifice himself to a sense of duty on her behalf! And then she repeated the odious words to herself, till she came to think that it had fallen from his lips and not from her own. In writing to her father from Perivale, she had merely told him of Mrs.Winterfield's death and of her own intended return.
At the Taunton station she met the well-known old fly and the well-known old driver, and was taken home in the accustomed manner.
As she drew nearer to Belton the sense of her distress became stronger and stronger, till at last she almost feared to meet her father.
What could she say to him when he should repeat to her, as he would be sure to do, his lamentation as to her future poverty? On arriving at the house she learned that he was up-stairs in his bedroom.
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