Besides her attractions, she possessed a large fortune, and my brother Robert was wise enough not to mind about her ancestry. This remark of mine rather annoyed Rose, for everybody knows (and therefore there can be no harm in referring to the fact) that, pretty and accomplished as she herself is, her family is hardly of the same standing as the Rassendylls. “You are nine-and-twenty,” she observed, “and you’ve done nothing but–” I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know), I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady, his countess. “My dear Rose,” I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, “why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. “I wonder when in the world you’re going to do anything, Rudolf?” said my brother’s wife. The Rassendylls–With a Word on the Elphbergs 1 The Rassendylls–With a Word on the Elphbergs 2 Concerning the Colour of Men’s Hairģ A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative 4 The King Keeps his AppointmentĨ A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother 9 A New Use for a Tea-Tableġ2 I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook 13 An Improvement on Jacob’s Ladderġ7 Young Rupert’s Midnight Diversions 18 The Forcing of the Trap
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