id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt gissing-emancipated-1890 gissing gissing-emancipated-1890 1890 .txt text/plain 146073 9465 83 Local talk had inspired Mrs. Mallard with a prejudice against him, but substantial services mitigated this, and the widow was in course of time less uneasy at her son's being practically under the guardianship of this singular man of business. Mrs. Mallard was given to understand that no expenses were involved save those of the lad's support in Manchester, where Banks lived, and Mallard himself did not till long after know that his friend had paid the artist a fee out of his own pocket. cache/gissing-emancipated-1890.txt txt/gissing-emancipated-1890.txt