Ignorance Stories

Chapter the FirstIn which businesses prosper, families meet and a marriage is arranged, but no improprieties occur.It was a large house, set in a small park, but it could never look like a house of the gentility. It shouted aloud to anyone of sensibility, in this year of our Lord eighteen-fifty, that this was the home of a tradesman. A very rich tradesman, it must be admitted, but not a gentleman, be he titled or not.In t...