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Tales of two people. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Anthony Hope - Simone Vannini, 2016 -
COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an eminent man; as it was, he turned out only a singularly erratic individual.So much for common opinion. Let no more be heard of its dull utilitarian judgments! There are plenty of eminent men—at the moment, it is believed, no less than seventy Cabinet and ex-Cabinet Ministers (or thereabouts)—to say nothing of Bishops, Judges, and the British Academy—and all this in a nook of the world! (And the world too is a point!) Lynborough was something much more uncommon; it is not, however, quite easy to say what. Let the question be postponed; perhaps the story itself will answer it.
The Prisoner of Zenda . E-book. Formato Mobipocket Anthony Hope - Simone Vannini, 2016 -
“I wonder when in the world you’re going to do anything, Rudolf?” said my brother’s wife.“My dear Rose,” I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, “why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know), I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady, his countess. Behold, it is enough!”“You are nine-and-twenty,” she observed, “and you’ve done nothing but—”“Knock about? It is true. Our family doesn’t need to do things.”