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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... regarded you as more than an acquaintance , - as a friend . In days now past there were moments when I was almost rash enough to hope that I might have said even more than that . I confess that I had no warrant for such hopes , but I ...
... regarded you as more than an acquaintance , - as a friend . In days now past there were moments when I was almost rash enough to hope that I might have said even more than that . I confess that I had no warrant for such hopes , but I ...
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... regarded by Crosbie's friends . Men will still talk of such things lightly , professing that all is fair in love as it is in war , and speaking almost with envy of the good for- tunes of a practised deceiver . But I have never come ...
... regarded by Crosbie's friends . Men will still talk of such things lightly , professing that all is fair in love as it is in war , and speaking almost with envy of the good for- tunes of a practised deceiver . But I have never come ...
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... regarded all responsibility , though not the owner as regarded any possible profit ! And then , above and almost worse than all the rest , to find himself saddled with the Lupexes in the beginning of his career ! Poor Cradell indeed ...
... regarded all responsibility , though not the owner as regarded any possible profit ! And then , above and almost worse than all the rest , to find himself saddled with the Lupexes in the beginning of his career ! Poor Cradell indeed ...
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