Consolation from the world's deceit is very common. Mothers obtain it from their children, and men from their dogs. Some men even do so from their walking-sticks, which is just as rational.
Uncle of the young Earl Lovel, who was loud in his denunciation of the Countess and her daughter Lady Anna. Father of two boys at Harrow and one small daughter, Minnie.
"The parson, though a popular man, was not strong-minded. He was passionate, loud, generous, affectionate and indiscreet" - Lady Anna
GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of Princeton
University Press.
