[Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookCastle Richmond CHAPTER XIII 7/28
But there's not a girl in Cork but what likes the glance of his eye.
They do say that he'd have Lady Clara Desmond; only there ain't no money." "And what's he to these other people ?" "Cousin, I believe; or hardly so much as that, I'm thinking.
But all the same if anything was to happen to young Mr.Herbert, it would all go to him." "It would, would it ?" "So people say." "Mr.'Erbert is the son of the old cock at Castle Richmond, isn't he ?" "Just so.
He's the young cock; he, he, he!" "And if he was to be--nowhere like; not his father's son at all, for instance, it would all go to this 'andsome 'Appy 'Ouse man; would it ?" "Every shilling, they say; house, title, and all." "Hum," said Mr.Abraham Mollett; and he began again to calculate his family chances.
Perhaps, after all, this handsome young man who was at present too poor to marry his noble lady love might be the more liberal man to deal with.
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