Lady Anna
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XXVIII. LOVEL V. MURRAY AND ANOTHER. Monday, ilia 9th of November, was the day set down for the trial of the case which had assumed the' name of " Lovel versus Murray and Another." This denomination had been adopted many months ago, when it had been held to be practicable by the Lovel party to prove that the lady who was now always called the Countess, was not entitled to bear the name of Lovel, but was simply Josephine Murray, and her daughter simply Anna Murray. Had there been another wife alive when the mother was married that name and that name only could have been hers, whether she had been the victim of the old Earl's fraud, -- or had herself been a party to it. The reader will have understood that as the case went on the opinions of those who acted for the young Earl, and more especially the opinion of the young Earl himself, had been changed. Prompted to do so by various motives, they, whotad undertaken to prove that the Countess was no Countess, had freely accorded to her her title, and had themselves entertained her daughter with all due acknowledgment of rank and birth. Nevertheless the name of the case remained and had become common in people's mouths. The very persons who would always speak of the Countess Lovel spoke also very familiarly of the coming trial in " Lovel v. Murray," and now the 9th of November had come round and the case of "Lovel v. Murray and Another...
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