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84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 1988
"My dear, the country just reeks with trees and birds and bulls and things like that," said Effy helplessly.
Effy looked stricken. She would rather die of starvation at a good address than live genteelly at an unfashionable one.
Two pairs of shocked eyes stared at him. Both Tribbles were bound by the iron laws of convention. It was quite comme it faut to wait for an elderly relative to drop dead, or to marry someone one did not like in the slightest in order to get money—but accept charity? Never!