In Trust: The Story of a Lady and Her Lover, Volume 1

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Halaman 46 - she cried, with a sudden light of compunction and pity in her eyes, ' but that is because you Oh, forgive me ! ' with a sudden perception of what she was saying. ' That is because I have not much else to lose ? ' said the old lawyer. ' Don't be so sorry for saying it ; it is true. I lost all I had in that way, my dear, as you know, many many years ago. Life, to be sure, has changed very much since then, but I am not unhappy. I have learnt to be content ; and it would make a great difference to me...
Halaman 158 - I have money, and I have real estate," he says. The girl has read in novels that it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave, and so she may be drawn by the commercial offering.
Halaman 79 - Because there is nothing to tell. Dear Rector, don't you know my father did leave me a great legacy, after all ' ' What was that ? What was that ? Something that was not in the will. I thank God for it, Anne,' cried Mr. Ashley. ' It is the best news I have heard for many a day.
Halaman 198 - That is the best thing she can do,' said Mrs. Mountford. ' If she can get a little sleep she will be all right." Secretly it must be allowed that Anne was more amused than alarmed by her little sister's indisposition. Mrs. Mountford had been subject to such retirements as long as anyone could remember ; and Rose's get-up was a very careful imitation of her mother's — eaude-Cologne and water on a chair beside her sofa, a wet handkerchief spread upon her head, her hair let down and streaming on the...
Halaman 77 - God bless my soul!" cried the Rector— which benediction was the good man's oath; "but that has nothing to do with it. I want to know what is settled about Anne.
Halaman 233 - ... Cosmo Douglas to make him break off with Anne ? is it my fault that he is not going to marry her after all ? and yet it will be me that will suffer, and nobody else at all. Mr. Loseby, can't it be put a stop to ? I know you like Anne best, but why should not I have justice, though I am not Anne ? Ob, it is too bad ! it is cruel — it is wicked ! Only just because papa was cross and out of temper, and another man is changeable, why should I be the one to suffer ? Mr. Loseby, I am sure if you...
Halaman 246 - You speak at your ease of making another will — are you sure you will have it in your power? When a man makes an unjust will, I verily believe every word is a nail in his coffin. It is very seldom,' said Mr. Loseby, with emphasis, carried away by his feelings, ' that they live to repent.' Mr. Mountford paled in spite of himself. He looked up sharply at his mentor, then laughed a short uneasy laugh. ' There's nothing like a partisan,' he said ; ' I call that brutal — if it were not so silly, Loseby...
Halaman 134 - I am supposed to be your supplanter,' he wrote to Anne herself, ' and I feel your deputy doing your work for you. Dear Lady of Mount, send me your orders. I will carry them out to the best of my ability. I am poor, and not at all clever about the needs of the estate, but I think, don't you think ? that the great Mr. Buistrode, who is so good as to be my agent, is something of a bully, and does not by any means do his spiriting gently. What do you think? You are not an ignoramus, like me.
Halaman 245 - Anne all over,' said her mendacious advocate. ' After you have accomplished this injustice and cut her off, that sweet creature will come to you some fine day and say, " Papa, I give him up. I give everything up that displeases you — I cannot go against my duty."' There was a slight attempt at imitation of Anne's voice in Mr. Loseby's tone ; he tried a higher key when he made those imaginary speeches on her behalf: but his eyes were glistening all the time : he did not intend to be humorous. And...

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