A loutish landowner of Toodlum Hall, near Caversham, who married Sophia Longestaffe, much to the disdain of Sophia's younger sister, Georgiana.
Is it not a pity that people who are bright and clever should so often be exceedingly improper? and that those who are never improper should so often be dull and heavy?
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
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1976 renewed PUP
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