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Marion Fay. E-book. Formato PDF Anthony Trollope - Interactive Media, 2018 -
Lord Hampstead had fallen in love with Marion Fay, only living daughter of an old Quaker who worked as a clerk in the City, whose wife and other children had all died of consumption. Although Marion loved Lord Hampstead she refused to marry him, foreseeing her early death, which soon occurred.
Marion Fay. E-book. Formato PDF Anthony Trollope - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
But the argument had been carried on between the friends, and the noble heir had at last prevailed. George Roden was not a rose leaf, but he was found at Hendon to have ?owers of beautiful hues and with a sweet scent. Had he not been known to be a Post Office clerk, — could the Marchioness have been allowed to judge of him simply from his personal appearance, — he might have been taken to be as fine a rose leaf as any. He was a tall, fair, strongly built young man, with short light hair, pleasant grey eyes, an aquiline nose, and small mouth. In his gait and form and face nothing was discernibly more appropriate to Post Office clerks than to the nobility at large. But he was a clerk, and he himself, as he himself declared, knew nothing of his own family, — remembered no relation but his mother.