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Title: Ayala's Angel

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: August 25, 2010 [eBook #33500]

Language: English

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AYALA'S ANGEL

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE,

Author of "Doctor Thorne," "The Prime Minister," "Orley Farm,"
&c., &c.

In Three Volumes.

VOL. I.

London:
Chapman and Hall (Limited),
11, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
1881.
[All Rights Reserved.]

Westminster:
J. B. Nichols and Sons, Printers.
25, Parliament Street.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

I. THE TWO SISTERS.
II. LUCY WITH HER AUNT DOSETT.
III. LUCY'S TROUBLES.
IV. ISADORE HAMEL.
V. AT GLENBOGIE.
VI. AT ROME.
VII. TOM TRINGLE IN EARNEST.
VIII. THE LOUT.
IX. THE EXCHANGE.
X. AYALA AND HER AUNT MARGARET.
XI. TOM TRINGLE COMES TO THE CRESCENT.
XII. "WOULD YOU?"
XIII. HOW THE TRINGLES FELL INTO TROUBLE.
XIV. FRANK HOUSTON.
XV. AYALA WITH HER FRIENDS.
XVI. JONATHAN STUBBS.
XVII. LUCY IS VERY FIRM.
XVIII. DOWN IN SCOTLAND.
XIX. ISADORE HAMEL IS ASKED TO LUNCH.
XX. STUBBS UPON MATRIMONY.
XXI. AYALA'S INDIGNATION.
XXII. AYALA'S GRATITUDE.

AYALA'S ANGEL.

CHAPTER I.

THE TWO SISTERS.

When Egbert Dormer died he left his two daughters utterly penniless
upon the world, and it must be said of Egbert Dormer that nothing
else could have been expected of him. The two girls were both
pretty, but Lucy, who was twenty-one, was supposed to be simple and
comparatively unattractive, whereas Ayala was credited,--as her
somewhat romantic name might show,--with poetic charm and a taste for
romance. Ayala when her father died was nineteen.

We must begin yet a little earlier and say that there had been,--and
had died many years before the death of Egbert Dormer,--a clerk in
the Admiralty, by name Reginald Dosett, who, and whose wife, had been
conspicuous for personal beauty. Their charms were gon