Framley Parsonage
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the first page or two of this narrative must be consumed in giving a catalogue of the good things which chance and conduct together had heaped upon this young man’s head.
His first step forward in life had arisen from his having been sent, while still very young, as a private pupil to the house of a clergyman, who was an old friend and intimate friend of his father’s. This clergyman had one other, and only one other, pupil—the young Lord Lufton; and between the two boys, there had sprung up a close alliance.
While they were both so placed, Lady Lufton had visited her son, and then invited young Robarts to pass his next holidays at Framley Court. This visit was made; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had been delighted, she said, in having such a companion for her son, and expressed a hope that the boys might remain together during the course of their education. Dr. Robarts was a man who thought much of the breath of peers and peeresses, and was by no means inclined to throw away any advantage which might arise to his child from such a friendship. When, therefore, the young lord was sent to Harrow, Mark Robarts went there also.
That the lord and his friend often quarrelled, and occasionally fought,—the fact even that for one period of three months they never spoke to each other—by no means interfered with the doctor’s hopes. Mark again and again stayed a fortnight at Framley Court, and Lady Lufton always wrote about him in the highest terms.
Anthony Trollope
FRAMLEY PARSONAGE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I.
“OMNES OMNIA BONA DICERE.”
CHAPTER II.
THE FRAMLEY SET, AND THE CHALDICOTES SET.
CHAPTER III.
CHALDICOTES.
CHAPTER IV.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE.
CHAPTER V.
AMANTIUM IRÆ AMORIS INTEGRATIO.
CHAPTER VI.
MR. HAROLD SMITH’S LECTURE.
CHAPTER VII.
SUNDAY MORNING.
CHAPTER VIII.
GATHERUM CASTLE.
CHAPTER IX.
THE VICAR’S RETURN.
CHAPTER X.
LUCY ROBARTS.
CHAPTER XI.
GRISELDA GRANTLY.
CHAPTER XII.
THE LITTLE BILL.
CHAPTER XIII.
DELICATE HINTS.
CHAPTER XIV.
MR. CRAWLEY OF HOGGLESTOCK.
CHAPTER XV.
LADY LUFTON’S AMBASSADOR.
CHAPTER XVI.
MRS. PODGENS’ BABY.
CHAPTER XVII.
MRS. PROUDIE’S CONVERSAZIONE.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE NEW MINISTER’S PATRONAGE.
CHAPTER XIX.
MONEY DEALINGS.
CHAPTER XX.
HAROLD SMITH IN THE CABINET.
CHAPTER XXI.
WHY PUCK, THE PONY, WAS BEATEN.
CHAPTER XXII.
HOGGLESTOCK PARSONAGE.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE TRIUMPH OF THE GIANTS.
CHAPTER XXIV.
MAGNA EST VERITAS.
CHAPTER XXV.
NON-IMPULSIVE.
CHAPTER XXVI.
IMPULSIVE.
CHAPTER XXVII.
SOUTH AUDLEY STREET.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
DR. THORNE.
CHAPTER XXIX.
MISS DUNSTABLE AT HOME.
CHAPTER XXX.
THE GRANTLY TRIUMPH.
CHAPTER XXXI.
SALMON FISHING IN NORWAY.
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE GOAT AND COMPASSES.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CONSOLATION.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
LADY LUFTON IS TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE STORY OF KING COPHETUA.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
KIDNAPPING AT HOGGLESTOCK.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
MR. SOWERBY WITHOUT COMPANY.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
IS THERE CAUSE OR JUST IMPEDIMENT?
CHAPTER XXXIX.
HOW TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER.
CHAPTER XL.
INTERNECINE.
CHAPTER XLI.
DON QUIXOTE.
CHAPTER XLII.
TOUCHING PITCH.
CHAPTER XLIII.
IS SHE NOT INSIGNIFICANT?
CHAPTER XLIV.
THE PHILISTINES AT THE PARSONAGE.
CHAPTER XLV.
PALACE BLESSINGS.
CHAPTER XLVI.
LADY LUFTON’S REQUEST.
CHAPTER XLVII.
NEMESIS.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
