TROLLOPE'S WORST MOMENT.
la Anthony Trollope's autobiography h» records an amusing incident in hia career while he was clerk in the Post Office at £'90 a year. It appears that during this time he was always broiling with hia chiefs, constantly in debt, living beyond his means, with no friends to advise or to help him. Indeed, he seems always to hare been in trouble of some sort, often with a sheriff's officer or a money lender at his heels. He carried on a correspondence with a young.woman in the country, too, and she would fain hare married him. Ha would, however, hare none of her, and he writes:—" At last the mother appeared at the Post Office. My hair almost stands on my head now as I remember the figure of the woman walking into the big room in which I sat with six or seren clerks, having a large basket oa her arm and an immense bonnet on her head. The messenger had vainly endeavored to persuade her to remain in the anteroom. She followed the man in, and walking up the centre of the room, addressed me in a loud voice: 'Anthony Trollope, when are 1 you going to marry my daughter ?* We hare all had our worst moments, and that wag one of my worst."
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4681, 8 January 1884, Page 2
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219TROLLOPE'S WORST MOMENT. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4681, 8 January 1884, Page 2
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