If the walls might be his, as well as the garnishing of them, and if Florence Mountjoy could come and reign there, then he fancied that they all might be put to a better purpose than that of which he had thought.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope
Willing to oblige, Miss Chase consented, and returned to the angry lover, only to exasperate his discontent.
— from Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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