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The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Warden by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...n after his marriage; the other, Eleanor, not till ten years later. At the time at which we introduce him to our readers he was living as precentor at... ...and having married his eldest daughter to a son of the bishop a very short time before his installation to the office of precentor. 4 The Warden Scan... ...And this compromise would not have been made from any prudential motive of saving what would yet remain, for Mr Harding still felt little doubt but he... ...too little, more or less in fact than the founder willed, it’s as clear as daylight that no one can fall foul of either of you for receiving an allott... ...ent on, and opened to her friend all her plan, her well-weighed scheme for saving her father from a sorrow which would, she said, if it lasted, bring ... ...r has lost his home and his income; he would give up the lawsuit and go to Australia, with her of course, leaving The Jupiter and Mr Finney to complet... ... his name, when she addressed him. Bold wished with all his heart that the Australian scheme was in the act of realisation, and that he and Eleanor we...

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The Greshams of Greshamsbury

By: Anthony Trollope

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... member for East Barsetshire. Whether or not it was true, as stated at the time, that the aspect of the men with whom he was called on to associate at... ...rliament brought to a close. The then Mr Gresham was not an old man at the time of his death, and his eldest son, Francie Newbold Gresham, was a very ... ...othing; there’s only Frank, and he can’t have cost anything yet. Can he be saving money to buy back Boxall Hill?’ ‘Oh no!’ said the Lady Arabella, qui... ...uy back Boxall Hill?’ ‘Oh no!’ said the Lady Arabella, quickly. ‘He is not saving anything; he never did, and never will save, though he is so stingy ... ...es as to pure blood. And so his troubles multiplied, and he saw no present daylight through them. Such had been the way in which Lady Arabella had got... ...at is left, and I will make my own way in the world, somehow. I will go to Australia; yes, sir, that will be the best. I and Mary will both go. Nobody... ... that. What would you both live on? It would be madness. ’ ‘We would go to Australia, ’ answered he, bitterly. ‘I have just said so. ’ ‘Oh, no, my boy...

...er who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ... in such an encounter. I left England in August last—August, 1861. At that time, and for some months previous, I think that the general English feelin... ...d. It would not, however, be necessary to go back many months to reach the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a nati... ...reminding them that the stream runs fast, that the rapids are near and the daylight past? I asked, as a matter of course, whether Quebec was much disg... ...m a light that it became a task to find our path. I still thought that the daylight had not gone, and that as we descended, and so escaped from the cl... ...not be expected to walk alone. It is exactly the same with the colonies of Australia, with New Zealand, with the Cape of Good Hope, and with Jamaica. ... ...ater fall, one feels sure that no strongest swimmer could have a chance of saving himself if fate had cast him in even among those petty whirlpools. T... ...may buy a section of an allotment, and thus become his own master. All his savings are made with a view to this independence. Seated on his own land h...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State U... ...did woo her—and won her. For Mark himself was a hand- some fellow. At this time the vicar was about twenty-five years of age, and the future Mrs Robar... ...our, the old curate taking care of the Framley souls the while. And in due time they re- turned; and after a further interval, in due course a child w... ...et about it, Smith?’ ‘How do we set about it? How did we set about it with Australia and America? It is very easy to criticize; but in such matters th... ...reat thing is to put one’s shoulder to the wheel. ’ ‘We sent our felons to Australia, ’ said Supplehouse, ‘and they began to work for us. And as to Am... ...xpedient that she should give way a little. ‘You can start at noon as it’s daylight, you know, if you like it, Mr Robarts, ’ she said. There was not m... ...ch a saviour? What though the country at the present moment needed no more saving, might there not, never- theless, be a good time coming? Were there ... ...use were being burned, burn it must, even though there were facilities for saving it. For who would dare to interfere with the 116 Framley Parsonage ...

...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 an excellent 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 ...

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