Ayala's Angel - Paperback

by Anthony Trollope (Author)

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 ninetee