My Lady's Money - Hardcover

Collins, Wilkie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809599139 ISBN 13: 9780809599134

Publisher: Wildside Pr, 2004

Synopsis

"The woman is mad!" cried Lady Lydiard. "Do you actually suppose, Miss Pink, that Alfred Hardyman could, by any earthly possibility, marry your niece!" Not even Miss Pink's politeness could submit to such a question as this. She rose indignantly from her chair. "As you aware, Lady Lydiard, that the doubt you have just expressed is an insult to my niece, and a insult to Me?" "Are _you_ aware of who Mr. Hardyman really is?" retorted her Ladyship. "Or do you judge of his position by the vocation in life which he has perversely chosen to adopt? I can tell you, if you do, that Alfred Hardyman is the younger son of one of the oldest barons in the English Peerage, and that his mother is related by marriage to the Royal family of Wurtemberg." Miss Pink received the full shock of this information without receding from her position by a hair-breadth.

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About the Author:

English novelist William Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) was a playwright and short story writer best-known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). He was born into the London family of painter William Collins and lived in Italy and France as a child learning French and Italian. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850 he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, collaborator and mentor. Some of his work was first published in All the Year Round and Household Words, run by Dickens, and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0809599139
• ISBN 13: 9780809599134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216