Ayalas Angel
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creator: Trollope, Anthony
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full text: "Ayala's Angel": electronic edition This text is based on the Public Domain TEI edition prepared at the Oxford Text Archive. It was converted to ASCII by Internet Wiretap on 18 May 1993. IW is solely responsible for changes. A-1377-C: Ayala's Angel. Ed. David Skilton. London, 1989: Folio Society. Depositor: Joe Whitlock Blundell, The Folio Society. [On RLIN] Distributor of TEI edition: Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN; archive@ox.ac.uk Freely available for non-commercial use provided that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. 11 May 1993 First edition published in 1881 AYALA'S ANGEL by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 1 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 gone, but the records of them had been left in various grandchildren. There had been a son born to Mr Dosett, who was also a Reginald and a clerk in the Admiralty, and who also, in his turn, had been a handsome man. With him, in his decadence, the reader will become acquainted. There were also two daughters, whose reputation for perfect feminine beauty had never been contested. The elder had married a city man of wealth -- of wealth when he married her, but who had become enormously wealthy by the time of our story. He had when he married been simply Mister, but…