“lover. "I do not know why you should be so good to me," she said. "Because I love you," said he, "better than all the world." "But why should you be so good to me as that? Why should you love me? I am such a poor thing for a man like you to love." "I have had the wit to see that you are not a poor thing, Grace; and it is thus that I have earned my treasure. Some girls are poor things, and some are rich treasures." Trollope, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Kindle Locations 12572-12573). Kindle Edition. Trollope, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Kindle Locations 12570-12572). Kindle Edition. ”