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Updated: May 21, 2025

Then there was a younger daughter, Jane, still at home, who passed her life between her mother's work-table and her father's Greek, mending linen, and learning to scan iambics, for Mr Crawley in his early days had been a ripe scholar. And now there had come upon them all this terribly-crushing disaster.

Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barset