Plot
Francis O'Kelly, Lord Ballindine,
had as near neighbors, distant relations and tenants, Mrs. Kelly and her son
Martin. Another neighbor was Barry Lynch, whose father had filched from the
Ballindine estate a considerable fortune, which he left in equal portions to
his worthless son Barry and to his daughter Anty. Barry attempted to force Anty
into an asylum, declaring her to be mentally unfit to manage her fortune, and,
failing this, tried to murder her. She fled to the Kellys,
where Martin, not unmindful of her wealth, planned to marry her. Before he made
this sordid proposal, he fell in love with her-and she with him. Lord
Ballindine had been engaged to Fanny Wyndham, a wealthy heiress whose guardian
Lord Cashel tried to marry her to his dissipated son
Lord Kilcullen. His plan failed, and the lovers were reunited. Lord Kilcullen, crippled by debt, escaped from his creditors by
going to
GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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