[The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prime Minister CHAPTER XIII 13/31
Later in the evening, after she had gone to her room, Everett came in while the old man was still walking up and down the drawing-room.
"Where have you been ?" asked the father,--not caring a straw as to any reply when he asked the question, but roused almost to anger by the answer when it came. "I have been dining with Lopez at the club." "I believe you live with that man." "Is there any reason, sir, why I should not ?" "You know that there is a good reason why there should be no peculiar intimacy.
But I don't suppose that my wishes, or your sister's welfare, will interest you." "That is severe, sir." "I am not such a fool as to suppose that you are to quarrel with a man because I don't approve his addressing your sister; but I do think that while this is going on, and while he perseveres in opposition to my distinct refusal, you need not associate with him in any special manner." "I don't understand your objection to him, sir." "I dare say not.
There are a great many things you don't understand. But I do object." "He's a very rising man.
Mr.Roby was saying to me just now--" "Who cares a straw what a fool like Roby says ?" "I don't mean Uncle Dick, but his brother,--who, I suppose, is somebody in the world.
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