Plot
Margaret Mackenzie, unattractive and colorless at
thirty-five, inherited a small fortune at the death of her brother, and for the
first time in her drab existence was free to seek some measure of happiness.
To secure this she moved from her gloomy London
home to a cheerful apartment in Littlebath where, with an eye on her fortune,
she was sought in marriage by the Rev. Jeremiah Maguire, an Evangelical
clergyman; by Samuel Rubb, Jr,
son of her brother's partner; and by her cousin John Ball, a widower with nine
children. She refused them all, but did fall in love with her elderly cousin,
and, when it was proved that her fortune was really his, they were married.
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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