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An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope · 1884

A two-volume 1884 novel by Anthony Trollope in which elderly country gentleman William Whittlestaff takes the orphaned young Mary Lawrie into his Hampshire home as a daughter, despite his housekeeper Mrs. Baggett's warning that he will fall in love with her.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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