An habitual drunkard, whose wife deserted him for Colonel Askerton, whom she married after Jack drank himself to death in India.
The Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable ... Of all of our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.
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Have your say
Who is your favourite Trollopian heroine?
Results:
35.9% Lady Glencora
6.0% Lily Dale
12.7% Mary Thorne
26.7% Mme Max Goesler
18.6% Miss Dunstable
35.9% Lady Glencora
6.0% Lily Dale
12.7% Mary Thorne
26.7% Mme Max Goesler
18.6% Miss Dunstable
total votes = 1711
GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of Princeton
University Press.