Anthony hope novel the prisoner of5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He glanced at his wife: her cheek was slightly flushed he patted it caressingly. I’m so glad Robert’s is black! she cried.Īt this moment Robert (who rises at seven and works before breakfast) came in. Upon this I stroked my hair: I knew quite well what she meant. Good families are generally worse than any others, she said. Ancestry is, in fact, a matter concerning which the next observation of Rose’s has some truth. Besides her attractions, she possessed a large fortune, and my brother Robert was wise enough not to mind about her ancestry. This remark of mine rather annoyed Rose, for everybody knows (and therefore there can be no harm in referring to the fact) that, pretty and accomplished as she herself is, her family is hardly of the same standing as the Rassendylls. You are nine-and-twenty, she observed, and you’ve done nothing but. ![]() 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-inlaw to that charming lady, his countess. 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 wonder when in the world you’re going to do anything, Rudolf? said my brother’s wife. Chapter 1 The Rassendylls - With a Word on the Elphbergs ![]()
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