The Small House at AllingtonOxford University Press, 1981 - Всего страниц: 674 Lily Dale is sublimely happy when she becomes engaged to Adolphus Crosbie, assistant secretary in a government agency. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor fixedly stuck in the "Great House" at Allington. Crosbie spends a weekend away from Lily, and becomes attracted to Lady Alexandrina De Courcy, Who is from a noble Family. He asks for her hand in marriage, jilting he former love, Lily. John Eames, a young government clerk, has loved Lily Dale for years. He tries to get Lily to notice him after she gets jilted, but she still loves Crosbie, and maintains her love for him despite his treachery. Crosbie, however, soon finds that his noble bride brings no money into the marriage, but continues to spend it as though she had. His "noble"marriage is a debacle from start to finish. All Lily's friends urge her toward Eames, but Lily stubbornly clings to her hopeless love. |
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... present months or so , there are left to me but three days of this heaven ! Come , then ; I will make the most of what happiness is given to me . Crosbie felt it all as she felt it , and recognized the extent of the debt he owed her ...
... present months or so , there are left to me but three days of this heaven ! Come , then ; I will make the most of what happiness is given to me . Crosbie felt it all as she felt it , and recognized the extent of the debt he owed her ...
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... present mood and wishes , though it should have given an exactly opposite impulse to his heart . He had hesitated as to marrying Lily Dale at once , because of the smallness of his income . Now he had a pros- pect of considerable ...
... present mood and wishes , though it should have given an exactly opposite impulse to his heart . He had hesitated as to marrying Lily Dale at once , because of the smallness of his income . Now he had a pros- pect of considerable ...
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... present times have become so pretty behaved that corporal punishment seems to have gone out of fashion . I shouldn't care so much about that , if any other punishment had taken its place . But it seems to me that a blackguard such as ...
... present times have become so pretty behaved that corporal punishment seems to have gone out of fashion . I shouldn't care so much about that , if any other punishment had taken its place . But it seems to me that a blackguard such as ...
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