A young Australian, who helped manage his cousin Peter's sheep ranch. He was too poor to marry Catherine Baird, and she had married Peter whom she soon came to hate. After Peter's death she refused his estate and turned it over to John, who accepted it on condition that she would marry him.
It is ever so much easier to proffer kindness graciously than to receive it with grace.
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
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