The Palliser Novels

Updated: 2024-4-18

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The Palliser Novels Novel Chapters

List of most recent chapters published for the The Palliser Novels novel. A total of 309 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024

Latest Release: Chapter 1 : THE PALLISER NOVELS.ANTHONY TROLLOPE.CONTENTS.CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?.PHINEAS FINN.THE EUST
THE PALLISER NOVELS.ANTHONY TROLLOPE.CONTENTS.CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?.PHINEAS FINN.THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS.PHINEAS REDUX.THE PRIME MINISTER.THE DUKE'S CHILDREN.CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?.VOLUME I.CHAPTER I.Mr Vavasor and His Daughter.Whether or no, she, whom you

101 That it is untrue I believe you must be as well aware as I am myself. How intimate I was with. Mr. Finn, and what were the limits of my intimacy with him you knew before I married you. After our marriage I encouraged his friends.h.i.+p till I found that t 2024-4-23
102 Victrix Mr. Monk's holiday programme allowed him a week at Killaloe, and from thence he was to go to Limerick, and from Limerick to Dublin, in order that, at both places, he might be entertained at a public dinner and make a speech about tenant-right 2024-4-23
103 "I don't see how a fellow is to help himself," said Phineas. "When a fellow begins to meddle with politics they will come.""Why can't you grow into them gradually as your betters and elders have done before you? It ought 2024-4-23
104 "It is so hard that you should be driven away." She did not answer him for a while, and he was beginning to think of his own case also. Was it not hard that he too should be driven away? "It is odd enough that we should both be going at the 2024-4-23
105 "Well, - yes, - I am not down-hearted. But I confess to a feeling that the world would go on even though we had nothing to say to a single province in North America. But that is for your private ear. You are not to whisper that in Downing Street.&quo 2024-4-23
106 "And the hero, Phineas, - he is still dear to you?""Dear to me?""Yes. You would have hated me, had he become my husband? And you will hate Madame Goesler when she becomes his wife?""Not in the least. I am no dog in the m 2024-4-23
107 "It cannot be as you have hinted to me," he said at last. His words did not come louder than a low whisper; but they were plainly heard, and instantly the hand was withdrawn."Cannot be!" she exclaimed. "Then I have betrayed myself 2024-4-23
108 "I am n.o.body in this matter," said Phineas."I can a.s.sure you, Mr. Finn, that we have not regarded you in that light, and I hope that the time may come when we may be sitting together again on the same bench."Neither on the Treasury 2024-4-23
109 "Next Sunday.""You will return. You must be here for our wedding; - indeed you must. I will not be married unless you do."Even this, however, was impossible. He must go on Sunday, and must return no more. Then he made his little farewe 2024-4-23
110 Lizzie Greystock.It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies, - who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two, - that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself. We will tell the story of Lizzie Greystock from the be 2024-4-23
111 CHAPTER V.The Eustace Necklace John Eustace, Lady Eustace's brother-in-law, had told his friend Greystock, the lady's cousin, that Mr. Camperdown the lawyer intended to "jump upon" that lady. Making such allowance and deduction from the force of these 2024-4-23
112 "Aunt Penelope, you had better take care.""I shall say just what I think, Lizzie. You can't frighten me. The fact is, you are disgracing the family you have married into, and as you are my niece - ""I'm not disgracing anybody. You are disgracing ev 2024-4-23
113 "Dear Lady Fawn!""But it makes me unhappy when I see your mind engaged about Mr. Greystock. There is the truth, Lucy. You should not think of Mr. Greystock. Mr. Greystock is a man who has his way to make in the world, and could not marry you, even if, 2024-4-23
114 "Frederic will be sure to see to that," said Augusta, the eldest."She is very beautiful," said Lydia, the fifth."And clever," said Cecilia, the sixth."Beauty and cleverness won't make a good wife," said Amelia, who was the wise one of the family. 2024-4-23
115 "Into Mr. Camperdown's hands!""And then let the matter be settled by arbitration - ""Arbitration? That means going to law?""No, dearest, - that means not going to law. The diamonds would be entrusted to Mr. Camperdown. And then some one would be a 2024-4-23
116 "Four thousand a year is a very great consideration, Lucy." Lucy for a while said nothing. She was making up her mind that she would say nothing; - that she would make no reply indicative of any feeling on her part. But she was not sufficiently strong t 2024-4-23
117 "I intend it," said Lord Fawn."It is so nice to go to church," said Lizzie. Since her widowhood had commenced, she had compromised matters with the world. One Sunday she would go to church, and the next she would have a headache and a French novel and 2024-4-23
118 The fact that Mr. Greystock had proposed in form to Lucy Morris was soon known to all the family, and the news certainly did take away something from the importance which would otherwise have been attached to Lizzie's departure. There was not the same aw 2024-4-23
119 "But surely Lady Eustace is very pretty.""Yes; - she is very pretty; nay more, she is quite lovely to look at. And she is clever, - very. And she is rich, - very. But - ""Well, Lady Glencora. What does your 'but' mean?""Who ever explains a 'but 2024-4-23
120 But Frank Greystock did visit her, - more than once. On the day after the above letter was written he came to her. It was on Sunday afternoon, when July was more than half over, and he found her alone. Miss Macnulty had gone to church, and Lizzie was lyin 2024-4-23
121 The Diamonds Become Troublesome The thirtieth of July came round, and Lizzie was prepared for her journey down to Scotland. She was to be accompanied by Miss Macnulty and her own maid and her own servants, and to travel, of course, like a grand lady. She 2024-4-23
122 CHAPTER XXIII.Frank Greystock's First Visit to Portray Had Frank Greystock known all that his cousin endured for his comfort, would he have been grateful? Women, when they are fond of men, do think much of men's comfort in small matters, and men are apt 2024-4-23
123 "And I am to bear it? And it is you that tell me so? Oh, Frank!""Let us understand each other, Lizzie. I will not fight him, - that is, with pistols; nor will I attempt to thrash him. It would be useless to argue whether public opinion is right or wron 2024-4-23
124 "Why on earth wouldn't you speak to her? I went on making speeches to Miss Macnulty on purpose to give you a chance. Lizzie generally talks about as well as any young woman I know; but you had not a word to say to her, nor she to you.""Because you dev 2024-4-23
125 "I do think it was very hard for Lucy to bear," said Lydia."And I won't bear it!" exclaimed Lucy. "To think that Mr. Greystock should be so mean as to bear malice about a thing like that wild Indian because he takes his own cousin's part! Of course 2024-4-23
126 "I should think, then, that, subject to any claim for paraphernalia, the possession of the diamonds would be ruled by the will." Mr. Camperdown was rus.h.i.+ng into the further difficulty of the chattels in Scotland and those in England, when the Turtle 2024-4-23
127 "As far as I can see," continued Frank, "she has a fair claim to them. I suppose they'll file a bill in Chancery, and then it will be out of my line altogether. She says her husband gave them to her, - absolutely put them on her neck himself, and told 2024-4-23
128 "Heaven and earth! To suppose that I should ever keep them under less than seven keys, and that there should be any of the locks that anybody should be able to open except myself!""And where are the seven keys?" asked Frank."Next to my heart," said 2024-4-23
129 This, from Lady Fawn, was almost miraculous, - from Lady Fawn, to whom her son had ever been the highest of human beings! But Lucy had told the tale to her lover, and her lover approved of her going. Perhaps there was acting upon her mind some feeling, of 2024-4-23
130 "There's lunch at two, - just bread and b.u.t.ter and cheese, and perhaps a bit of cold meat. There's dinner at seven; - and very bad it is, because they don't have any good meat in London. Down in Fifes.h.i.+re the meat's a deal better than it is he 2024-4-23
131 "Well, I don't know," said Mrs. Greystock. "It is generally considered that young ladies are more reticent about such things. She has blurted it out and boasted about it at once.""I thought girls always told of their engagements," said Frank, "and 2024-4-23
132 "I suppose everything is slow after the Baron," said Mrs. Carbuncle, who had distinguished herself with the Baron's stag-hounds last March."Are we to go home now?" asked Lizzie, who would have been well-pleased to have received an answer in the affir 2024-4-23
133 Frank had all the while been endeavouring to explain the accident; how he had ordered a horse from Mr. MacFarlane, and the rest of it, - as the reader will understand; but quite in vain. Mr. Nappie in his wrath would not hear a word. But now that he spoke 2024-4-23
134 On the Sat.u.r.day nothing especial happened. Mr. Nappie was out on his grey horse, and condescended to a little conversation with Lord George. He wouldn't have minded, he said, if Mr. Greystock had come forward; but he did think Mr. Greystock hadn't co 2024-4-23
135 "No; I ain't.""And enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that she's about the handsomest girl out. As for me, I'd sooner have the widow. I beg your pardon, Mr. Greystock." Frank merely bowed. "Simply, I mean, because she rides about two stone lighter. 2024-4-23
136 Lord George owned to himself that such a necklace was worth having, - as also, no doubt, were Portray Castle and the income arising from the estate, even though they could be held in possession only for a single life. Hitherto in his very chequered career 2024-4-23
137 "That's just the reason why," said Lucy, explaining. "Of course, Lady Linlithgow thinks that her sister's nephew can do better than marry her companion. It's a matter of course she should think so. What I am most afraid of is that the dean and Mrs. 2024-4-23
138 All this took place in the morning; - that is, about two o'clock; but after dinner the subject became general. There might be some little reticence in regard to Lord Fawn's feelings, - but it was not sufficient to banish a subject so interesting from th 2024-4-23
139 "I wish the diamonds had been thrown into the sea," said Mrs. Carbuncle."What do you think about them yourself?" asked Lucinda."I don't know what to think. I'm at a dead loss. You know that man Mr. Benjamin, Lady Eustace?" Lizzie, with a little st 2024-4-23
140 "He's a stupid sort of a fellow, and I think she was quite right," said Lizzie. "I'd never marry a man merely because I said I would. If I found I didn't like him, I'd leave him at the altar. If I found I didn't like him, I'd leave him even after 2024-4-23
141 As to the robberies, I believe there is no doubt that the police have got hold of the young woman. They don't arrest her, but deal with her in a friendly sort of way. Barrington Erle says that a sergeant is to marry her in order to make quite sure of her 2024-4-23
142 "What people?" demanded Lord Fawn."My dear fellow, that is a question that cannot be answered. You know that I am the last man to interfere if I didn't think it my duty as a friend. You were engaged to her?" - Lord Fawn only frowned. "If so," conti 2024-4-23
143 "Billy was about right there," said the younger officer, rising from his seat.Late on the afternoon of the same day, when London had already been given over to the gaslights, Mr. Gager, having dressed himself especially for the occasion of the friendly 2024-4-23
144 Between her son, and her married daughter, and Lucy Morris, poor Lady Fawn's life had become a burthen to her. Everything was astray, and there was no happiness or tranquillity at Fawn Court. Of all simply human creeds the strongest existing creed for th 2024-4-23
145 "Yes, by you. Who else has done it?""I do not think that I have done wrong to any one. I was obliged to say that I could not recognise those diamonds as the property of my wife.""But what right had you to say so? I had the diamonds when you asked me 2024-4-23
146 "Nor would I, - willingly. He is honest and respectable; and in spite of all that has come and gone would, I think, behave well to a woman when she was once his wife. Of course, I would prefer to marry a man that I could love. But if that is impossible, 2024-4-23
147 "Yes, - he is your cousin. Why don't you ask him? You see him every day, I suppose?""Nearly every day.""Why do you send for me, then?""It is so hard to tell you, Lucy. I have sent to you in good faith, and in love. I could have gone to you, - only 2024-4-23
148 "Make him give it up. You may tell him what you like of me. Tell him that I shall only make him miserable, and more despicable than he is; - that I shall never be a good wife to him. Tell him that I am thoroughly bad, and that he will repent it to the la 2024-4-23
149 Should sooner be my husband than yourself."I see through you, and despise you thoroughly.E. Eustace.She was comparing the two answers together, very much in doubt as to which should be sent, when there came a message to her by a man whom she knew to be a 2024-4-23
150 "I shall never be married to him. How I shall escape from him, - by dying, or going mad, - or by destroying him, G.o.d only knows." Then she paused, and her aunt looking into her face almost began to fear that she was in earnest. But she would not take 2024-4-23
151 "What piece of business?" she asked, looking him in the face for a moment, trying to be bold, but trembling as she did so. She had believed him to be ignorant of her story, but she had soon perceived, from his manner to her, that he knew it all, - or, a 2024-4-23
152 There was no reason why she should not go; and, indeed, now that the interview was over, there did not seem to be any reason why she should have come. Though they had heard so much from her own mouth, they knew no more than they had known before. The grea 2024-4-23
153 CHAPTER LXXV.Lord George Gives His Reasons Lady Eustace did not leave the house during the Sat.u.r.day and Sunday, and engaged herself exclusively with preparing for her journey. She had no further interview with Mrs. Carbuncle, but there were messages be 2024-4-23
154 "No; - I do not know it.""I have told you so more than once.""You cannot afford to marry her.""Then I shall do it without affording." Lizzie was about to speak, - had already p.r.o.nounced her rival's name in that tone of contempt which she so we 2024-4-23
155 Lizzie, when she received this, had two strings to her bow. A writer from Ayr had told her that the summons sent to her was not worth the paper on which it was printed in regard to a resident in Scotland; - and she had also got a doctor from the neighbour 2024-4-23
156 "Why didn't he come forward as a witness when he was summoned?" asked Mr. Bonteen triumphantly. "And as for the woman, does anybody mean to say that she should not have been indicted for perjury?""The woman, as you are pleased to call her, is my par 2024-4-23
157 "Never. Is she anything to the other Pallisers?""She is everything to them all; niece and grand-niece, and first cousin and grand-daughter. Her father was the fourth brother, and as she was one of six her share of the family wealth is small. Those Pall 2024-4-23
158 "That's because you are not in love with him, Lady Chiltern."Six or seven very pleasant days Phineas Finn spent at Harrington Hall, and then he started alone, and very lonely, for Tankerville. But he admitted to himself that the pleasure which he had r 2024-4-23
159 "But when we read of Churches as is called State Churches, - Churches as have bishops you and I have to pay for, as never goes into them - ""But we don't pay the bishops, Mr. Bunce.""Oh yes, we do; because, if they wasn't paid, the money would come 2024-4-23
160 "Ah! - there, I fear, I cannot oblige you.""I want you to approve it, though no one else may.""Though all else should do so, I cannot.""Then take the task of curing the sick one, and of strengthening the weak one, into your own hands. If you will t 2024-4-23
161 "Then you will be accursed among adulterers," said the laird of Loughlinter. "By such a one I will send no message. From the first moment that I saw you I knew you for a child of Apollyon. But the sin was my own. Why did I ask to my house an idolater, 2024-4-23
162 "When I accepted him?""Of course it was. I know that, and so do you. There need be no secret between us.""There need be no secret between us certainly, - and on my part there shall be none. On my part there has been none.""Nor on mine.""There has 2024-4-23
163 "I went over to see them, you know.""So I heard. She talks some nonsense about the Earl being willing to do anything for you. What could the Earl do? He has no more influence in the Loughton borough than I have. All that kind of thing is clean done for 2024-4-23
164 "Indeed, no; I wish she had. An old friend, but not so old as Laura!""I cannot guess; - not Lord Fawn?""Lord Fawn! What would Lord Fawn do here? Don't you know that Lord Fawn goes nowhere since his last matrimonial trouble? It's a friend of yours, 2024-4-23
165 "And here you are back among us; and it does seem so odd. Lady Chiltern never told me that I was to meet you.""Nor did she tell me.""It is better so, for otherwise I should not have come, and then, perhaps, you would have been all alone in your disco 2024-4-23
166 "Adelaide, you mean?""You understand her thoroughly. There can't be anything in it; is there?""How anything?""She can't really - like him?""Mr. Maule, if I were to tell her that you had asked such a question as that I don't believe that she'd 2024-4-23
167 "We shall let the Address pa.s.s almost without a word. Gresham will simply express his determination to oppose the Church Bill to the knife. He means to be very plain-spoken about it. Whatever may be the merits of the Bill, it must be regarded as an unc 2024-4-23
168 "I shan't last long, of course. I am a poor feeble creature. But while I do live, I should prefer not to be turned out of my own house, - if Lady Chiltern could be induced to consent to such an arrangement. My doctor seems to think that I might linger o 2024-4-23
169 "Had not the matter been most pressing in regard both to time and its own importance.""So the woman told me, and therefore I have consented to see you.""You know a man of the name of - Slide, Mr. Kennedy?" Mr. Kennedy shook his head. "You know the 2024-4-23
170 "I don't think there was ever anything of that kind.""They were always together, but I dare say it was Platonic. I believe these kind of things generally are Platonic. And as for Lady Laura; - heavens and earth! - I suppose it must have been Platonic. 2024-4-23
171 Phineas looked at him and retired into the House, whither Quintus Slide could not follow him, and the editor of the People's Banner was left alone in his anger."How a c.o.c.k can crow on his own dunghill!" That was Mr. Slide's first feeling, as with a 2024-4-23
172 My dear Lord Chiltern, - I venture to suppose that at present you are acting as the guardian of Miss Palliser, who has been staying at your house all the winter. If I am wrong in this I hope you will pardon me, and consent to act in that capacity for this 2024-4-23
173 "What! - Planty Pall! If I know anything of a man he's not the man to do that because he's a duke. He can hold his own against all comers, and always could. Quiet as he always seemed, he knew who he was, and who other people were. I don't think you'l 2024-4-23
174 Mr. Gresham began with a calmness of tone which seemed almost to be affected, but which arose from a struggle on his own part to repress that superabundant energy of which he was only too conscious. But the calmness soon gave place to warmth, which heated 2024-4-23
175 "Not for long, one would think. And yet how are you to turn him out? It depends very much on a man's power of endurance.""His colleagues will resign, I should think.""Probably; - and then he must go. I should say that that will be the way in which t 2024-4-23
176 "I never interfere.""But you must. Other men do continually. It's quite a common thing for a man to insist that one or two others should come in with him.""Yes. If a man feels that he cannot sustain his own position without support, he declines to j 2024-4-23
177 "No; - not particularly. But she is an indiscreet woman, and hates Bonteen, and has taken it into her stupid head to interest herself in my concerns. It is no doing of mine, and yet I cannot help it.""She will succeed.""I don't want a.s.sistance fro 2024-4-23
178 "She is in London again now?""Yes; she and her father are in Portman Square.""She has been an injurious friend to you.""No, by heaven," exclaimed Phineas. "But for her I should never have been here at all, never have had a seat in Parliament, nev 2024-4-23
179 "No, I didn't; but Chiltern was saying things that I didn't like." Adelaide's face at once became very serious. "Yes, a good deal of sugar, please. I don't care about toast, and anything does for me. He has gone to the kennels, has he?""He said h 2024-4-23
180 It is probable that very many ladies shared the opinion of the d.u.c.h.ess; but not the less on that account did they take part with Phineas Finn. They could not understand why he should be shut out of office because a lady had been in love with him, and 2024-4-23
181 The Quarrel On that Wednesday evening Phineas Finn was at The Universe. He dined at the house of Madame Goesler, and went from thence to the club in better spirits than he had known for some weeks past. The Duke and d.u.c.h.ess had been at Madame Goesler 2024-4-23
182 "Only think of Lady Laura, - with one mad and the other in Newgate! G. P."This letter gave Madame Goesler such a blow that for a few minutes it altogether knocked her down. After reading it once she hardly knew what it contained beyond a statement that 2024-4-23
183 CHAPTER L.What the Lords and Commons Said about the Murder When the House met on that Thursday at four o'clock everybody was talking about the murder, and certainly four-fifths of the members had made up their minds that Phineas Finn was the murderer. To 2024-4-23
184 "Nonsense!" said her brother. "He has not been as yet committed for his trial. Heaven knows how much has to be done. It is as likely as not that in three days' time he will be out at large, and all the world will be running after him just because he h 2024-4-23
185 "It startles one," said Ned."That's what I mean. It's such a strange thing that it should be the man we know ourselves. These things always are happening to me. Do you remember when poor Fred Fellows got his bad fall and died the next year? You weren 2024-4-23
186 Mr. Low did his best to explain to the d.u.c.h.ess that the desired object could hardly be effected after the fas.h.i.+on she proposed, and he endeavoured to persuade her that justice was sure to be done in an English court of law. "Then why are people s 2024-4-23
187 "Good-night, old fellow," said Erle, affectionately. "I'll see you again before long. May G.o.d send you through it all.""Good-night, Barrington. It was kind of you to come to me." Then Lady Laura, watching to see whether her cousin would leave her 2024-4-23
188 "Feeling that it might be so, I thought that I would venture to ask," said the Duke. "I am sure you know that I am the last man to interfere as to place or the disposition of power.""Quite the last man," said Mr. Gresham."But it has always been hel 2024-4-23
189 "Hung! I should think so! What other end would be fit for him? Oh, yes; they must hang him. But it makes one think that the world is too hard a place to live in, when such a one as he can cause so great a ruin.""It has been very terrible.""Think what 2024-4-23
190 Phineas had now been in gaol between six and seven weeks, and the very fact of his incarceration had nearly broken his spirits. Two of his sisters, who had come from Ireland to be near him, saw him every day, and his two friends, Mr. Low and Lord Chiltern 2024-4-23
191 "Certainly not," said Mr. Bouncer."Did you ever read poetry, Mr. Bouncer?""Oh yes; - I read a great deal of poetry.""Shakespeare, perhaps?" Mr. Bouncer did not condescend to do more than nod his head. "There is a murder described in Hamlet. Was t 2024-4-23
192 There had of course been much question as to the witnesses to be selected. The d.u.c.h.ess of Omnium had been anxious to be one, but the Duke had forbidden it, telling his wife that she really did not know the man, and that she was carried away by a fooli 2024-4-23
193 "There won't be much doubt about the credibility," said Mr. Chaffanbra.s.s, rising in his place. "I am not a bit afraid about the credibility, gentlemen; and I don't think that you need be afraid either. You must understand, gentlemen, that I am now 2024-4-23
194 CHAPTER LXIX.The Duke's First Cousin Our pages have lately been taken up almost exclusively with the troubles of Phineas Finn, and indeed have so far not unfairly represented the feelings and interest of people generally at the time. Not to have talked o 2024-4-23
195 Monday night.Dear Lady Laura, - I should have called in the Square last night, only that I feel that Lady Chiltern must be weary of the woes of so doleful a person as myself. I dined and spent the evening with the Lows, and was quite aware that I disgrace 2024-4-23
196 Phineas, as soon as he was alone, thought, not of what the d.u.c.h.ess had said, but of the manner in which he had greeted his friend, Madame Goesler. As he remembered what he had done, he also blushed. Had she been angry with him, and intended to show he 2024-4-23
197 "Why should you want to rob her of her relations, Mr. Spooner?""Because - because - . I don't want to say a word against her, Lady Chiltern. To me she is perfect as a star; - beautiful as a rose." Mr. Spooner as he said this pointed first to the heav 2024-4-23
198 He did speak a few words to her before his journey to London, but in those words there was no allusion made to the great subject which must be discussed between them. "I am going up to London," he said."So the d.u.c.h.ess tells me.""Mr. Gresham has s 2024-4-23
199 "And now tell me what has pa.s.sed between you and Mr. Gresham," she said as soon as the servant had given them coffee. They were sitting by a window which opened down to the ground, and led on to the terrace and to the lawns below. The night was soft, 2024-4-23
200 CHAPTER Lx.x.x.Conclusion There remains to us the very easy task of collecting together the ends of the thread of our narrative, and tying them into a simple knot, so that there may be no unravelling. Of Mr. Emilius it has been already said that his good 2024-4-23