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Way We Live Now finished

The last section was a yawner.  Roger Carbury is too perfect.  Longstaffe girl doesn't marry the Jewish banker but instead hooks up with a penniless clergyman.  Marie in America and possible marriage to Fisker, he of the railroad.  Mrs. Hurdle back to USA, too.  Hetta and Paul married, and Paul has a little income from something.  They will live on the Carbury estate.

So . . . the ending fits the age, but the rest of the book was much stronger than the final 100 pages.  Trollope is the master of money.  I don't think there is a character in the book whose bank account isn't examined in one way or another.  Won't read this one again, but I might try Eustace Diamonds in the not too distant future.

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