[An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookAn Eye for an Eye CHAPTER VII 16/19
They tell me you're to be a great lord some day." "Either that or a little one," said Neville, laughing. "Anyways you'll be a rich man with a handle to your name.
To me, living here in this out of the way parish, a lord doesn't matter that." And Father Marty gave a fillip with his fingers.
"The only lord that matters me is me bishop.
But with them women yonder, the title and the money and all the grandeur goes a long way.
It has been so since the world began. In riding a race against you they carry weight from the very awe which the name of an English Earl brings with it." "Why should they ride a race against me ?" "Why indeed,--unless you ride a race against them! You wouldn't wish to injure that young thing as isn't yet out of her teens ?" "God forbid that I should injure her." "I don't think that you're the man to do it with your eyes open, Mr. Neville.
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