bookssland.com » Fiction » Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope (read me like a book .txt) 📗

Book online «Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope (read me like a book .txt) 📗». Author Anthony Trollope



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 157
Go to page:

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Can You Forgive Her?

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: November 16, 2006 [eBook #19500]
Most recently updated and illustrations added: November 19, 2011

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?***

 

E-text prepared by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.

 

Editoral Note:

Can You Forgive Her? was first published in monthly installments (one shilling each) in 1864-1865. The first book edition was published by Chapman and Hall in two volumes (Volume I in 1864 and Volume II in 1865).

Volume I was illustrated by Hablôt Knight Browne, better known as "Phiz" and a favorite of Dickens. Trollope was not pleased with Browne's work, and the illustrations for Volume II were drawn by a Miss E. Taylor of St. Leonards. These original illustrations are included in this e-book.

 

 

The Balcony at Basle. The Balcony at Basle.
Click to ENLARGE

 

 

 

CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?

 

BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE AUTHOR OF
"ORLEY FARM," "DOCTOR THORNE," "FRAMLEY PARSONAGE," ETC.

 

With Illustrations.

 

IN TWO VOLUMES.

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Volume I.
  I.   Mr. Vavasor and His Daughter. II.   Lady Macleod. III.   John Grey, the Worthy Man. IV.   George Vavasor, the Wild Man. V.   The Balcony at Basle. VI.   The Bridge over the Rhine. VII.   Aunt Greenow. VIII.   Mr. Cheesacre. IX.   The Rivals. X.   Nethercoats. XI.   John Grey Goes to London. XII.   Mr. George Vavasor at Home. XIII.   Mr. Grimes Gets His Odd Money. XIV.   Alice Vavasor Becomes Troubled. XV.   Paramount Crescent. XVI.   The Roebury Club. XVII.   Edgehill. XVIII.   Alice Vavasor's Great Relations. XIX.   Tribute from Oileymead. XX.   Which Shall It Be? XXI.   Alice Is Taught to Grow Upwards,
Towards the Light. XXII.   Dandy and Flirt. XXIII.   Dinner at Matching Priory. XXIV.   Three Politicians. XXV.   In Which Much of the History of
the Pallisers Is Told. XXVI.   Lady Midlothian. XXVII.   The Priory Ruins. XXVIII.   Alice Leaves the Priory. XXIX.   Burgo Fitzgerald. XXX.   Containing a Love Letter. XXXI.   Among the Fells. XXXII.   Containing an Answer to the Love Letter. XXXIII.   Monkshade. XXXIV.   Mr. Vavasor Speaks to His Daughter. XXXV.   Passion versus Prudence. XXXVI.   John Grey Goes a Second Time to London. XXXVII.   Mr. Tombe's Advice. XXXVIII.   The Inn at Shap. XXXIX.   Mr. Cheesacre's Hospitality. XL.   Mrs. Greenow's Little Dinner in the Close.  
Volume II.
  XLI.   A Noble Lord Dies. XLII.   Parliament Meets. XLIII.   Mrs. Marsham. XLIV.   The Election for the Chelsea Districts. XLV.   George Vavasor Takes His Seat. XLVI.   A Love Gift. XLVII.   Mr. Cheesacre's Disappointment. XLVIII.   Preparations for Lady Monk's Party. XLIX.   How Lady Glencora Went to
Lady Monk's Party. L.   How Lady Glencora Came Back
from Lady Monk's Party. LI.   Bold Speculations on Murder. LII.   What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall. LIII.   The Last Will of the Old Squire. LIV.   Showing How Alice Was Punished. LV.   The Will. LVI.   Another Walk on the Fells. LVII.   Showing How the Wild Beast Got
Himself Back from the Mountains. LVIII.   The Pallisers at Breakfast. LIX.   The Duke of St. Bungay in Search of
a Minister. LX.   Alice Vavasor's Name Gets into
the Money Market. LXI.   The Bills Are Made All Right. LXII.   Going Abroad. LXIII.   Mr. John Grey in Queen Anne Street. LXIV.   The Rocks and Valleys. LXV.   The First Kiss. LXVI.   Lady Monk's Plan. LXVII.   The Last Kiss. LXVIII.   From London to Baden. LXIX.   From Baden to Lucerne. LXX.   At Lucerne. LXXI.   Showing How George Vavasor Received
a Visit. LXXII.   Showing How George Vavasor Paid
a Visit. LXXIII.   In Which Come Tidings of Great Moment
to All Pallisers. LXXIV.   Showing What Happened in the Churchyard. LXXV.   Rouge et Noir. LXXVI.   The Landlord's Bill. LXXVII.   The Travellers Return Home. LXXVIII.   Mr. Cheesacre's Fate. LXXIX.   Diamonds Are Diamonds. LXXX.   The Story Is Finished Within the Halls
of the Duke of Omnium.

 

 

ILLUSTRATIONS
Volume I.
  The Balcony at Basle.   Frontispiece. "Would you mind shutting the window?"   Chapter II. "Sometimes you drive me too hard."   Chapter III. "Peace be to his manes."   Chapter VII. Captain Bellfield proposes a toast.   Chapter IX. "If it were your friend, what advice would
you give her?"   Chapter XI. "I'm as round as your hat, and as square as
your elbow; I am."   Chapter XIII. "Mrs. Greenow, look at that."   Chapter XIV. Edgehill.   Chapter XVII. "Arabella Greenow, will you be that woman?"   Chapter XX. "Baker, you must put Dandy in the bar."   Chapter XXII. "Mr. Palliser, that was a cannon."   Chapter XXIII. "The most self-willed young woman I ever
met in my life."   Chapter XXVI. The Priory Ruins.   Chapter XXVII. Burgo Fitzgerald.   Chapter XXIX. Swindale Fell.   Chapter XXXI. "I have heard," said Burgo.   Chapter XXXIII. "Then—then,—then let her come to me."   Chapter XXXVI. "So you've come back, have you?" said
the Squire.   Chapter XXXVIII. "Dear Greenow; dear husband!"   Chapter XL.  
Volume II.
  Great Jove.   Chapter XLII. "Friendships will not come by ordering,"
said Lady Glencora.   Chapter XLII. "I asked you for a kiss."   Chapter XLVI. Mr. Cheesacre disturbed.   Chapter XLVII. "All right," said Burgo, as he thrust the
money into his breast-pocket.   Chapter XLIX. Mr. Bott on the watch.   Chapter L. The last of the old squire.   Chapter LIII. Kate.   Chapter LVI. Lady Glencora.   Chapter LVIII. "Before God, my first wish is to free you from
the misfortune that I have brought on you."   Chapter LVIII. She managed to carry herself with some
dignity.   Chapter LXIII. A sniff of the rocks and valleys.   Chapter LXIV. "I wonder when you're going to pay me what
you owe me, Lieutenant Bellfield?"   Chapter LXV. Lady Glencora at Baden.   Chapter LXVIII. Alice.   Chapter LXX. "Oh! George," she said, "you won't do that?"   Chapter LXXI. "How am I to thank you for forgiving me?"   Chapter LXXV. "Good night, Mr. Palliser."   Chapter LXXVI. Alice and her bridesmaids.   Chapter LXXIX. "Yes, my bonny boy,—you have made it
all right for me."   Chapter LXXX.

 

 

 

VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. Mr. Vavasor and His Daughter.
 

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 older than himself, who was in possession of four hundred a year, and who was related to those big people to whom I have alluded. Who these were and the special nature of the relationship, I shall be called upon to explain hereafter, but at present it will suffice to say that Alice Macleod gave great offence to all her friends by her marriage. She did not, however, give them much time for the indulgence of their anger. Having given birth to a daughter within twelve months of her marriage, she died, leaving in abeyance that question as to whether the fault of her marriage should or should not be pardoned by her family.

When a man marries an heiress for her money, if that money be within her own control, as was the case with Miss Macleod's fortune, it is generally well for the speculating lover that the lady's friends should quarrel with him and with her. She is thereby driven to throw herself entirely into the gentleman's arms, and he thus becomes possessed of the wife and the money without the abominable nuisance of stringent settlements. But the Macleods, though they quarrelled with Alice, did not quarrel with her à l'outrance. They snubbed herself and her chosen husband; but they did not so far separate themselves from her and her affairs as to give up the charge of her possessions. Her four hundred a year was settled very closely on herself and on her children, without even a life interest having been given to Mr. Vavasor, and therefore when she died the mother's fortune became the property of the little baby. But, under these circumstances, the big people did not refuse to interest themselves to some extent on behalf of the father. I do not suppose that any

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 157
Go to page:

Free e-book «Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope (read me like a book .txt) 📗» - read online now

Comments (0)

There are no comments yet. You can be the first!
Add a comment