 I have got so completely habituated to the ways of her family, that it is most painful to myself and, I cannot help feeling, rather unfair to her, to break off such an engagement. However, as I fairly told her father, it would be madness in me to marry...  Gurney Married: A Sequel to Gilbert Gurney - Seite 6von Theodore Edward Hook - 1838Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1837 - 604 Seiten
...myself and, I cannot help feeling, rather unfair to her, to break off such an engagement. However, as I fairly told her father, it would be madness in me...such a house as Blissfold Rectory. If I had the means ' " ' Aye, nye,' said the aunt, ' but you have not the means, Philip. All I want you to do is to see... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1837 - 610 Seiten
...her without adequate means for her support — the wife of a subaltern, with, perhaps, half a dozeu children, destined to be stowed away in a bare-walled...such a house as Blissfold Rectory. If I had the means ' " ' Луе, aye,' said the aunt, ' but you have not the means, Philip. All I want you to do is to... | |
 | 1837 - 610 Seiten
...myself and, I cannot help feeling, rather unfair to her, to break off such an engagement. However, as I fairly told her father, it would be madness in me...such a house as Blissfold Rectory. If I had the means ' " ' Aye, aye,' said the aunt, ' but you have not the means, Philip. All I want you to do is to see... | |
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