[The American Senator by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe American Senator CHAPTER XVIII 9/18
It's very easy to want money but very hard to get it.
If you send clients away out of the office with a flea in their ear I don't see how she's to have all manner of luxuries.
She ought to have come to me." "I don't see that at all, my dear." "If I'm to look after her she shall be said by me;--that's all.
I've done for her just as I have for my own and I'm not going to have her turn up her nose at me directly she wants anything for herself. I know what's fit for Mary, and it ain't fit that she should go trapesing away to Cheltenham, doing nothing in that old woman's parlour, and losing her chances for life.
Who is to suppose that Larry Twentyman will go on dangling after her in this way, month after month? The young man wants a wife, and of course he'll get one." "You can't make her marry the man if she don't like him." "Like him! She ought to be made to like him.
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