The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

I.	[THE SQUIRE OF ALLINGTON.]
II.	[THE TWO PEARLS OF ALLINGTON.]
III.	[THE WIDOW DALE OF ALLINGTON.]
IV.	[MRS. ROPER'S BOARDING-HOUSE.]
V.	[ABOUT L. D.]
VI.	[BEAUTIFUL DAYS.]
VII.	[THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLES.]
VIII.	[IT CANNOT BE.]
IX.	[MRS. DALE'S LITTLE PARTY.]
X.	[MRS. LUPEX AND AMELIA ROPER.]
XI.	[SOCIAL LIFE.]
XII.	[LILIAN DALE BECOMES A BUTTERFLY.]
XIII.	[A VISIT TO GUESTWICK.]
XIV.	[JOHN EAMES TAKES A WALK.]
XV.	[THE LAST DAY.]
XVI.	[MR. CROSBIE MEETS AN OLD CLERGYMAN ON HIS WAY TO COURCY CASTLE.]
XVII.	[COURCY CASTLE.]
XVIII.	[LILY DALE'S FIRST LOVE-LETTER.]
XIX.	[THE SQUIRE MAKES A VISIT TO THE SMALL HOUSE.]
XX.	[DR. CROFTS.]
XXI.	[JOHN EAMES ENCOUNTERS TWO ADVENTURES, AND DISPLAYS GREAT COURAGE IN BOTH.]
XXII.	[LORD DE GUEST AT HOME.]
XXIII.	[MR. PLANTAGENET PALLISER.]
XXIV.	[A MOTHER-IN-LAW AND A FATHER-IN-LAW.]
XXV.	[ADOLPHUS CROSBIE SPENDS AN EVENING AT HIS CLUB.]
XXVI.	[LORD DE COURCY IN THE BOSOM OF HIS FAMILY.]
XXVII.	["ON MY HONOUR, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT."]
XXVIII.	[THE BOARD.]
XXIX.	[JOHN EAMES RETURNS TO BURTON CRESCENT.]
XXX.	["IS IT FROM HIM?"]
XXXI.	[THE WOUNDED FAWN.]
XXXII.	[PAWKINS'S IN JERMYN STREET.]
XXXIII.	["THE TIME WILL COME."]
XXXIV.	[THE COMBAT.]
XXXV.	[VÆ VICTIS.]
XXXVI.	["SEE, THE CONQUERING HERO COMES."]
XXXVII.	[AN OLD MAN'S COMPLAINT.]
XXXVIII.	[DOCTOR CROFTS IS CALLED IN.]
XXXIX.	[DOCTOR CROFTS IS TURNED OUT.]
XL.	[PREPARATIONS FOR THE WEDDING.]
XLI.	[DOMESTIC TROUBLES.]
XLII.	[LILY'S BEDSIDE.]
XLIII.	[FIE, FIE!]
XLIV.	[VALENTINE'S DAY AT ALLINGTON.]
XLV.	[VALENTINE'S DAY IN LONDON.]
XLVI.	[JOHN EAMES AT HIS OFFICE.]
XLVII.	[THE NEW PRIVATE SECRETARY.]
XLVIII.	[NEMESIS.]
XLIX.	[PREPARATIONS FOR GOING.]
L.	[MRS. DALE IS THANKFUL FOR A GOOD THING.]
LI.	[JOHN EAMES DOES THINGS WHICH HE OUGHT NOT TO HAVE DONE.]
LII.	[THE FIRST VISIT TO THE GUESTWICK BRIDGE.]
LIII.	[LOQUITUR HOPKINS.]
LIV.	[THE SECOND VISIT TO THE GUESTWICK BRIDGE.]
LV.	[NOT VERY FIE FIE AFTER ALL.]
LVI.	[SHOWING HOW MR. CROSBIE BECAME AGAIN A HAPPY MAN.]
LVII.	[LILIAN DALE VANQUISHES HER MOTHER.]
LVIII.	[THE FATE OF THE SMALL HOUSE.]
LIX.	[JOHN EAMES BECOMES A MAN.]
LX.	[CONCLUSION.]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

[MR. PALLISER AND LADY DUMBELLO.][Chapter XXIII]	FRONTISPIECE.
["PLEASE, MA'AM, CAN WE HAVE THE PEAS TO SHELL?"]	CHAPTER III.
["AND YOU LOVE ME?" SAID SHE.]	CHAPTER V.
["IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF THE NAUGHTY PARTRIDGES."]	CHAPTER VII.
["MR. CRADELL, YOUR HAND," SAID LUPEX.]	CHAPTER XI.
["WHY, IT'S YOUNG EAMES."]	CHAPTER XIV.
["HE IS OF THAT SORT THAT THEY MAKETHE ANGELS OF," SAID THE VERGER.]	CHAPTER XVI.
["AND HAVE I NOT REALLY LOVED YOU?"]	CHAPTER XXI.
["DEVOTEDLY ATTACHED TO THE YOUNG MAN!"]	CHAPTER XXVI.
[THE BOARD.]	CHAPTER XXVIII.
["WON'T YOU TAKE SOME MORE WINE?"]	CHAPTER XXXII.
["AND YOU WENT IN AT HIM ON THE STATION?"]	CHAPTER XXXVI.
["LET ME BEG YOU TO THINK OVER THE MATTER AGAIN."]	CHAPTER XXXVIII.
["THAT MIGHT DO."]	CHAPTER XL.
["MAMMA," SHE SAID AT LAST, "IT IS OVER NOW, I'M SURE."]	CHAPTER XLIV.
["WHY, ON EARTH, ON SUNDAY?"]	CHAPTER XLVIII.
["BELL, HERE'S THE INKSTAND."]	CHAPTER XLIX.
["SHE HAS REFUSED ME, AND IT IS ALL OVER."]	CHAPTER LIV.

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CHAPTER I.

THE SQUIRE OF ALLINGTON.

f course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? Our story will, as its name imports, have its closest relations with those who lived in the less dignified domicile of the two; but it will have close relations also with the more dignified, and it may be well that I should, in the first instance, say a few words as to the Great House and its owner.