Lady Anna - 9781538059197

Excerpt n people, --as far as they were her own people, --had been taught to doubt her claim. If she were a countess why had she thrown herself into the arms of an old tailor? Why did she let her daughter play with the tailor's child, --if, in truth, that daughter was the Lady Anna? Why, above all things, was the name of the Lady Anna allowed to be mentioned, as it was mentioned, in connection with that of Daniel Thwaite, the tailor's son? During these eight weary years Lady Lovel, --for so she shall be called, --lived in a small cottage about a mile from Keswick, on the road to Grassmere and Ambleside, which she rented from quarter to quarter. She still obtained a certain amount of alimony, which, however, was dribbled out to her through various sieves, and which reached her with protestations as to the impossibility of obtaining anything like the moderate sum which had been awarded to her. And it came at last to be the case that she hardly knew what she was struggling to obtain. It was, of course, her object t

• | Author: Anthony Trollope
• | Publisher: Nook Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1538059193
• | ISBN-13: 9781538059197