[An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookAn Eye for an Eye CHAPTER VI 6/23
"If my aunt will only say that she will keep the house for a couple of years, she shall have it," said Fred to the young lady,--perhaps wishing to postpone for so long a time the embarrassment of the large domain; but to this Lady Scroope would not consent.
If allowed she would remain till the end of July.
By that time she would find herself a home. "For the life of me, I don't know how to begin my life," said the new peer to his brother as they were walking about the park together. "Do not think about beginning it at all.
You won't be angry, and will know what I mean, when I say that you should avoid thinking too much of your own position." "How am I to help thinking of it? It is so entirely changed from what it was." "No Fred,--not entirely; nor as I hope, is it changed at all in those matters which are of most importance to you.
A man's self, and his ideas of the manner in which he should rule himself, should be more to him than any outward accidents.
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