Anthony Trollope - The Palliser Novels - Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume)

Anthony Trollope

e-artnow, 2015

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ISBN 978-80-268-3433-5

Can You Forgive Her?

Phineas Finn

The Eustace Diamonds

Phineas Redux

The Prime Minister

The Duke’s Children Anthony Trollope

Table of Contents Table of Contents Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn The Eustace Diamonds Phineas Redux The Prime Minister The Duke’s Children Anthony Trollope

Volume I Volume I Table of Contents Table of Contents Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn The Eustace Diamonds Phineas Redux The Prime Minister The Duke’s Children Anthony Trollope

Chapter I. Mr Vavasor and His Daughter

Chapter II. Lady Macleod

Chapter III. John Grey, the Worthy Man

Chapter IV. George Vavasor, the Wild Man

Chapter V. The Balcony at Basle

Chapter VI. The Bridge Over the Rhine

Chapter VII. Aunt Greenow

Chapter VIII. Mr Cheesacre

Chapter IX. The Rivals

Chapter X. Nethercoats

Chapter XI. John Grey Goes to London

Chapter XII. Mr George Vavasor at Home

Chapter XIII. Mr Grimes Gets His Odd Money

Chapter XIV. Alice Vavasor Becomes Troubled

Chapter XV. Paramount Crescent

Chapter XVI. The Roebury Club

Chapter XVII. Edgehill

Chapter XVIII. Alice Vavasor’s Great Relations

Chapter XIX. Tribute From Oileymead

Chapter XX. Which Shall It Be?

Chapter XXI. Alice Is Taught to Grow Upwards, Towards the Light

Chapter XXII. Dandy and Flirt

Chapter XXIII. Dinner at Matching Priory

Chapter XXIV. Three Politicians

Chapter XXV. in Which Much of the History of the Pallisers Is Told

Chapter XXVI. Lady Midlothian

Chapter XXVII. The Priory Ruins

Chapter XXVIII. Alice Leaves the Priory

Chapter XXIX. Burgo Fitzgerald

Chapter XXX. Containing a Love Letter

Chapter XXXI. Among the Fells

Chapter XXXII. Containing an Answer to the Love Letter

Chapter XXXIII. Monkshade

Chapter XXXIV. Mr Vavasor Speaks to His Daughter

Chapter XXXV. Passion Versus Prudence

Chapter XXXVI. John Grey Goes a Second Time to London

Chapter XXXVII. Mr Tombe’s Advice

Chapter XXXVIII. The Inn at Shap

Chapter XXXIX. Mr Cheesacre’s Hospitality

Chapter XL. Mrs Greenow’s Little Dinner in the Close

Volume II

Chapter XLI. A Noble Lord Dies

Chapter XLII. Parliament Meets

Chapter XLIII. Mrs Marsham

Chapter XLIV. The Election for the Chelsea Districts

Chapter XLV. George Vavasor Takes His Seat

Chapter XLVI. A Love Gift

Chapter XLVII. Mr Cheesacre’s Disappointment

Chapter XLVIII. Preparations for Lady Monk’s Party

Chapter XLIX. How Lady Glencora Went to Lady Monk’s Party

Chapter L. How Lady Glencora Came Back From Lady Monk’s Party

Chapter LI. Bold Speculations on Murder

Chapter LII. What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall

Chapter LIII. The Last Will of the Old Squire

Chapter LIV. Showing How Alice Was Punished

Chapter LV. The Will

Chapter LVI. Another Walk on the Fells

Chapter LVII. Showing How the Wild Beast Got Himself Back From the Mountains

Chapter LVIII. The Pallisers at Breakfast

Chapter LIX. The Duke of St Bungay in Search of a Minister

Chapter LX. Alice Vavasor’s Name Gets Into the Money Market

Chapter LXI. The Bills Are Made All Right

Chapter LXII. Going Abroad

Chapter LXIII. Mr John Grey in Queen Anne Street

Chapter LXIV. The Rocks and Valleys

Chapter LXV. The First Kiss

Chapter LXVI. Lady Monk’s Plan

Chapter LXVII. The Last Kiss

Chapter LXVIII. From London to Baden

Chapter LXIX. From Baden to Lucerne

Chapter LXX. at Lucerne

Chapter LXXI. Showing How George Vavasor Received a Visit

Chapter LXXII. Showing How George Vavasor Paid a Visit

Chapter LXXIII. in Which Come Tidings of Great Moment to All Pallisers

Chapter LXXIV. Showing What Happened in the Churchyard

Chapter LXXV. Rouge Et Noir

Chapter LXXVI. The Landlord’s Bill

Chapter LXXVII. The Travellers Return Home

Chapter LXXVIII. Mr Cheesacre’s Fate

Chapter LXXIX. Diamonds Are Diamonds

Chapter LXXX. The Story Is Finished Within the Halls of the Duke of Omnium

Table of Contents Table of Contents Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn The Eustace Diamonds Phineas Redux The Prime Minister The Duke’s Children Anthony Trollope

Table of Contents Table of Contents Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn The Eustace Diamonds Phineas Redux The Prime Minister The Duke’s Children Anthony Trollope

Whether or no, she, whom you are to forgive, if you can, did or did not belong to the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English world, I am not prepared to say with any strength of affirmation. By blood she was connected with big people,—distantly connected with some very big people indeed, people who belonged to the Upper Ten Hundred if there be any such division; but of these very big relations she had known and seen little, and they had cared as little for her. Her grandfather, Squire Vavasor of Vavasor Hall, in Westmoreland, was a country gentleman, possessing some thousand a year at the outside, and he therefore never came up to London, and had no ambition to have himself numbered as one in any exclusive set. A hot-headed, ignorant, honest old gentleman, he lived ever at Vavasor Hall, declaring to any who would listen to him, that the country was going to the mischief, and congratulating himself that at any rate, in his county, parliamentary reform had been powerless to alter the old political arrangements. Alice Vavasor, whose offence against the world I am to tell you, and if possible to excuse, was the daughter of his younger son; and as her father, John Vavasor, had done nothing to raise the family name to eminence, Alice could not lay claim to any high position from her birth as a Vavasor. John Vavasor had come up to London early in life as a barrister, and had failed. He had failed at least in attaining either much wealth or much repute, though he had succeeded in earning, or perhaps I might better say, in obtaining, a livelihood. He had married a lady somewhat older than himself, who was in possession of four hundred a year, and who was related to those big people to whom I have alluded. Who these were and the special nature of the relationship, I shall be called upon to explain hereafter, but at present it will suffice to say that Alice Macleod gave great offence to all her friends by her marriage. She did not, however, give them much time for the indulgence of their anger. Having given birth to a daughter within twelve months of her marriage, she died, leaving in abeyance that question as to whether the fault of her marriage should or should not be pardoned by her family.

When a man marries an heiress for her money, if that money be within her own control, as was the case with Miss Macleod’s fortune, it is generally well for the speculating lover that the lady’s friends should quarrel with him and with her. She is thereby driven to throw herself entirely into the gentleman’s arms, and he thus becomes possessed of the wife and the money without the abominable nuisance of stringent settlements. But the Macleods, though they quarrelled with Alice, did not quarrel with her à l’outrance.