Anthony Trollope

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The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat

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Dosett, Mrs. Margaret.

The very worthy but stodgy and parsimonious aunt of Lucy and Ayala Dormer, who gave them a home, one after the other, when their father died.

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