Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

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Portrait of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope,  The Eustace Diamonds

“ How a man can like to kiss a face with a dirty horse's tail all whizzing about it, is what I can't at all understand. I don't think they do like it, but they have to do it."
"I haven't even a pony's tail," said Lucy.
"They do like to kiss you, I daresay."
"No, they don't," ejaculated Lucy, not knowing what answer to make.
"I haven't hardly looked at you, but you didn't seem to me to be a beauty."
"You're quite right about that, Lady Linlithgow."
"I hate beauties. My niece, Lizzie Eustace, is a beauty; and I think that, of all the heartless creatures in the world, she is the most heartless."
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Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope,  The Eustace Diamonds

“ So Lucy was torn away from the thoughts of her own happiness, and taken up-stairs to Lady Eustace. "You have heard that I am going?" said Lizzie.
"Yes;—I heard you were to go this morning."
"And you have heard why? I'm sure you will not deceive me, Lucy. Where am I to look for truth, if not to an old, old friend like you?"
"Why should I deceive you, Lizzie?"
"Why, indeed? only that all people do. The world is so false, so material, so worldly! One gives out one's heart and gets in return nothing but dust and ashes,—nothing but ashes and dust. Oh, I have been so disappointed in Lady Fawn!"
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Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope,  The Eustace Diamonds

“ Is it not true that you are in debt?"
"What of that? At any rate, Lizzie, I do not want help from you."
"That is so like a man's pride! Do we not all know that in such a career as you have marked out for yourself, wealth, or at any rate an easy income, is necessary? Do you think that I cannot put two and two together? Do you believe so meanly of me as to imagine that I should have said to you what I have said, if I did not know that I could help you? A man, I believe, cannot understand that love which induces a woman to sacrifice her pride simply for his advantage. I want to see you prosper.
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Source: Gutenberg

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