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"But he was one of those men who, as in youth they are ever very young, so in age are they never very old."

Barely made a start and already met three very interesting characters. I'm not sure if I am going to like Lopez.

"In very truth he loved the girl and reverenced her, believing her to be better and higher and nobler than other human beings,--as a man does when he is in love, and so believing, he had those doubts as to his own success which such reverence produces."

Ferdinand Lopez is definitely the most villainous person I have ever encountered in a Trollope novel.

Plot twist!