Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?
The eldest son of the Duchess of Stevenage, who was prevailed upon to stand up with Marie Melmotte in the quadrille that opened her mother's great ball.
He "objected mildly, being a young man devoted to business, fond of his own order, rather shy" - The Way We Live Now
GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of Princeton
University Press.
