Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. - Anthony Trollope

Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?

This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.