Anthony Trollope: The Palliser Novels: Book 1-6

Anthony Trollope

Including the Autobiography of the Author

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Palliser Novels PALLISER NOVELS Table of Contents

Can You Forgive Her?

Phineas Finn

The Eustace Diamonds

Phineas Redux

The Prime Minister

The Duke's Children

An Autobiography

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VOLUME I.

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.

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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 . They snubbed herself and her chosen husband; but they did not so far separate themselves from her and her affairs as to give up the charge of her possessions. Her four hundred a year was settled very closely on herself and on her children, without even a life interest having been given to Mr.