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| First Written | 1881 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Origin | UK |
| Publisher | Librivox |
| My Copy | librivox audiobook! |
| First Read | March 25, 2025 |
Ayala's Angel
The first meeting with Jonathan Stubbs had me cracking up. Bro has rizz, as they say.
Noted on March 25, 2025
Trollope is trying out cliffhangers at the end of the chapters! Love this.
Noted on March 25, 2025
Picked up from a recommendation in a newsletter by a Trollope fan. I don't think I'm unbiased about AT here, but this is a fun one. Good characters, plotty, and like Mr. Scarborough's Family it involves a couple of women who just KEEP getting proposed to, despite their best efforts.
Noted on March 25, 2025
How is a girl to love a man if she does not love him. Liking has nothing to do with it.
Quoted on March 25, 2025
Old Mr. Hamel had repudiated all conventions. Conventions are apt to go very quickly, one after another, when the first has been thrown aside. The man who ceases to dress for dinner soon finds it to be a trouble to wash his hands. A house is a bore. Calling is a bore. Church is a great bore. A family is a bore. A wife is an unendurable bore. All laws are bores, except those by which inferiors can be constrained to do their work. Mr. Hamel had got rid of a great many bores.
Quoted on March 25, 2025
[someone is saying they got some dramatic letters:] "And I have had one from my sister, also; and one, in the course of the day, from your uncle in Lombard Street. You had better read them!" There was something terribly tragic in Uncle Dosett's voice as he spoke.
And so must the reader read the letters; but they must be delayed for a few chapters.
Quoted on March 25, 2025
He had three days in which to make up his mind. It may be a question whether three days are ever much better than three minutes for such a purpose. A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Quoted on March 25, 2025