[What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookWhat I Remember, Volume 2 CHAPTER XIV 7/36
But I suspect from the phrase "one more," and the underlining of the word one, that she had already received from him more than one photograph, and was ashamed to make yet another application.
But she had led, or allowed, me to imagine that she was then asking for the first time.
The care to send the money for the price of the photograph was a characteristic touch.
Miss Field was, I well remember, a great favourite with Landor. I remember her telling me that he wished to give her a very large sort of scrap book, in which, among a quantity of things of no value, there were, as I knew, some really valuable drawings; and asking me whether she should accept it, her own feeling leaning to the opinion that she ought not to do so, in which view I strongly concurred.
If I remember right the book had been sent to her residence, and had to be sent back again, not without danger of seriously angering him. Here are the letters I have spoken of, written by Landor to Mr. Garrow.
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