An Old Man's Love
William Whittlestaff becomes a guardian to Mary lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon, who has gone in search of a fortune to the Kimberley diamond fields.
William Whittlestaff becomes a guardian to Mary lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon, who has gone in search of a fortune to the Kimberley diamond fields.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192826466 (0192826468)
Publish date: November 14th 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
"The Trollope Society" introductionWILLIAM WHITTLESTAFF, HAVING lost the woman he loved to a richer, more lively rival many years before, lives alone at Croker Hall in Hampshire, looked after by his loyal, vituperative housekeeper Mrs Baggett. Mr Whittlestaff impulsively takes in as his ward the orp...