Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly. - Anthony Trollope

Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.