The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

by Anne Brontë

“‘Well, what of that? Many a better man than you has lived and died in debt, and they can’t put you in prison, you know, because you’re a peer.’* And I handed him his fourth tumbler. “‘But I hate to be in debt!’ he shouted. ‘I wasn’t born for it, and I cannot bear it!’