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THE PRIME MINISTER

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

First published in monthly installments in 1875 and 1876
and in book form in 1876


CONTENTS

Volume I
I. [Ferdinand Lopez]
II. [Everett Wharton]
III. [Mr. Abel Wharton, Q.C.]
IV. [Mrs. Roby]
V. ["No One Knows Anything About Him"]
VI. [An Old Friend Goes to Windsor]
VII. [Another Old Friend]
VIII. [The Beginning of a New Career]
IX. [Mrs. Dick's Dinner Party.—No. I]
X. [Mrs. Dick's Dinner Party.—No. II]
XI. [Carlton Terrace]
XII. [The Gathering of Clouds]
XIII. [Mr. Wharton Complains]
XIV. [A Lover's Perseverance]
XV. [Arthur Fletcher]
XVI. [Never Run Away!]
XVII. [Good-Bye]
XVIII. [The Duke of Omnium Thinks of Himself]
XIX. [Vulgarity]
XX. [Sir Orlando's Policy]
XXI. [The Duchess's New Swan]
XXII. [St. James's Park]
XXIII. [Surrender]
XXIV. [The Marriage]
XXV. [The Beginning of the Honeymoon]
XXVI. [The End of the Honeymoon]
XXVII. [The Duke's Misery]
XXVIII. [The Duchess Is Much Troubled]
XXIX. [The Two Candidates for Silverbridge]
XXX. ["Yes;—a Lie!"]
XXXI. ["Yes;—with a Horsewhip in My Hand"]
XXXII. ["What Business Is It of Yours?"]
XXXIII. [Showing That a Man Should Not Howl]
XXXIV. [The Silverbridge Election]
XXXV. [Lopez Back in London]
XXXVI. [The Jolly Blackbird]
XXXVII. [The Horns]
XXXVIII. [Sir Orlando Retires]
XXXIX. ["Get Round Him"]
XL. ["Come and Try It"]

Volume II
XLI. [The Value of a Thick Skin]
XLII. [Retribution]
XLIII. [Kauri Gum]
XLIV. [Mr. Wharton Intends to Make a New Will]
XLV. [Mrs. Sexty Parker]
XLVI. ["He Wants to Get Rich Too Quick"]
XLVII. [As for Love!]
XLVIII. ["Has He Ill-treated You?"]
XLIX. ["Where Is Guatemala?"]
L. [Mr. Slide's Revenge]
LI. [Coddling the Prime Minister]
LII. ["I Can Sleep Here To-night, I Suppose?"]
LIII. [Mr. Hartlepod]
LIV. [Lizzie]
LV. [Mrs. Parker's Sorrows]
LVI. [What the Duchess Thought of Her Husband]
LVII. [The Explanation]
LVIII. ["Quite Settled"]
LIX. ["The First and the Last"]
LX. [The Tenway Junction]
LXI. [The Widow and Her Friends]
LXII. [Phineas Finn Has a Book to Read]
LXIII. [The Duchess and Her Friend]
LXIV. [The New K.G.]
LXV. ["There Must Be Time"]
LXVI. [The End of the Session]
LXVII. [Mrs. Lopez Prepares to Move]
LXVIII. [The Prime Minister's Political Creed]
LXIX. [Mrs. Parker's Fate]
LXX. [At Wharton]
LXXI. [The Ladies at Longbarns Doubt]
LXXII. ["He Thinks That Our Days Are Numbered"]
LXXIII. [Only the Duke of Omnium]
LXXIV. ["I Am Disgraced and Shamed"]
LXXV. [The Great Wharton Alliance]
LXXVI. [Who Will It Be?]
LXXVII. [The Duchess in Manchester Square]
LXXVIII. [The New Ministry]
LXXIX. [The Wharton Wedding]
LXXX. [The Last Meeting at Matching]