[The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prime Minister CHAPTER III 23/31
You may be an Admirable Crichton for what I know." "I have not intended to make any boast, sir, but simply to vindicate those who had the care of my education.
If you have no objection except that founded on my birth, which is an accident--" "When one man is a peer and another a ploughman, that is an accident. One doesn't find fault with the ploughman, but one doesn't ask him to dinner." "But my accident," said Lopez smiling, "is one which you would hardly discover unless you were told.
Had I called myself Talbot you would not know but that I was as good an Englishman as yourself." "A man of course may be taken in by falsehoods," said the lawyer. "If you have no other objection than that raised, I hope you will allow me to visit in Manchester Square." "There may be ten thousand other objections, Mr.Lopez, but I really think that the one is enough.
Of course I know nothing of my daughter's feelings.
I should imagine that the matter is as strange to her as it is to me.
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