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ayalas angel volume 1

by Trollope Anthony

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1881 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.

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...codicil was added to his will. Ayala was foolish rather than ungrateful, not understand- ing the nature of the family to which she was relegated. Before she had been taken away she had promised Lucy that she would be "obedient" to her aunt. There had hardly been such a word as obedience known at the bijou. If any were obedient, it was the mother and the father to the daughters. Lucy, and Ayala as well, had understood something of this ; and therefore Ayala had promised to be obedient to her aunt. " And to Uncle Thomas, " Lucy had demanded, with an imploring embrace. " Oh, yes, " AT GLENEOaiE. 55 said Ayala, dreading her uncle at that time. She soon learned that no obedience whatsoever was exacted from Sir Thomas. She had to kiss him morning and evening, and then to take whatever presents he made her. An easy uncle he was to deal with, and she almost learned to love him. Nor was Aunt Emmeline very exigeant, though she was fantastic and sometimes disagreeable. But Augusta was the great...