The Hallam Succession

But her situation was extremely painful, and many openly sympathized with Antony. To leave such a bit o’ property as Hallam to a lass! was against every popular tradition and feeling. Antony was regarded as a wronged man; and Richard as a plotting interloper, who added to all his other faults the unpardonable one of being a foreigner, with a name that no Yorkshireman iver did hev? This public sympathy, which he could see in every face and feel in every hand-shake, somewhat consoled Antony for the indifference his wife manifested on the subject.