When their artist father dies, Lucy and Ayala Dormer are divided between relations: Lucy goes to the frugal Dosetts, Ayala to the wealthy Tringles. Romantic Ayala waits for an ideal angel of light and rejects every man who falls short, among them her lumpish cousin Tom Tringle and the plain-spoken Colonel Jonathan Stubbs.
One of Trollope’s sunniest late comedies of courtship, published in 1881. Download the free EPUB.