Ward, Mary Augusta: Sir George Tressady, Vol I. v1. 9 Jun 2014
 

Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; (11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.

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“Did you ever see anyone so down as Burrows?” he said presently, with a little leap of laughter. “By George! it is hard lines. I suppose he thought himself safe, what with the work he’d done in the division and the hold he had on the miners. Then a confounded stranger turns up, and the chance of seventeen ignorant voters kicks you out! He could hardly bring himself to shake hands with me. I had come rather to admire him, hadn’t you?”