Works - 1916 Author:Anthony Trollope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE WILL. The coming of Mrs. Greenow at this very moment was a great comfort to Kate. Without her she would hardly have known how to bear hers... more »elf with her uncle and her brother. As it was, they were all restrained by something of the courtesy which strangers are bound to show to each other. George had never seen his aunt since he was a child, and some sort of introduction was necessary between them. " So you are George," said Mrs. Greenow, putting out her hand and smiling. " Yes ; I 'm George," said he. " And a member of Parliament!" said Mrs. Greenow. " It's quite an honour to the family. I felt so proud when I heard it! " She said this pleasantly, meaning it to be taken for truth, and then turned away to her brother. " Papa's time was fully come," she said, " though, to tell the truth, I had no idea that he was so weak as Kate describes him to have been." "Nor I, either," said John Vavasor. " He went to church with us here on Christmas Day." "Did he, indeed? Dear, dear! He seems at last to have gone off just like poor Greenow." Here she put her handkerchief up to her face. " I think you did n't know Greenow, John?" "I met him once," said her brother. "Ah! he was n't to be known and understood ti that way. I 'm aware there was a little prejudice, because of his being in trade, but we won't talk of that now. Where should I have been without him, tradesman or no tradesman? " " I 've no doubt he was an excellent man." " You may say that, John. Ah, well! we can't keep everything in this life forever." It may, perhaps, be as well to explain now that Mrs. Greenow had told Captain Bellfield at their last meeting before she left Norwich, that, under certain circumstances, if he behaved himself well, there might possibly be ground of hope. Whereupo...« less