📔 The Warden

Quotes from this book

Are you aware, sir, that we have gone to enormous expense to resist this iniquitous attempt of yours? It [a newspaper article] named some sons of bishops, and grandsons of archbishops; men great in their way, who had redeemed their disgrace in the eyes of many by the enormity of their plunder; and then, having disposed of these leviathans, it descended to Mr Harding.