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Mrs. Thompson, widow of an English civil servant
in India,
had placed her older daughter Lilian in a boarding school in Le Puy, and with her younger child Mimmy went there to he near
her. At their hotel was a courteous and sympathetic Frenchman, M. Lacordaire, whom
she took to he the local banker, and whom she came to
love. On a sight-seeing trip to the Chateau of Prince Polignac
he asked her to marry him, explaining that he was the village tailor, and
although she was distressed at his lack of position, she accepted him.
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of Princeton
University Press.
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