THE COMPLETE PALLISER NOVELS (All 6 Novels in One Edition). Anthony Trollope

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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

      Volume I

       Table of Contents

      Chapter I.

       Mr Vavasor and His Daughter

       Table of Contents

      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


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