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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
- 309 Alice Vavasors Great Relations Tribute from Oileymead Which Shall It Be? Alice Is Taught to Grow Upwards, Towards the Light Dandy and Flirt Dinner at Matching Priory Three Politicians In Which Much of the History of the Pallisers Is Told Lady Midlothian T
- 308 "I don't see any matter for joy in that to Conservatives like you and me.""He is my father, - and as he is going to be your father-in-law I should have thought that you might have been pleased.""Oh, yes; - if he likes it. But I have heard so often o
- 307 "It was not Percival's fault. He would not see him; nor till the last hour or two would he believe in his own danger. Nor was he ever frightened for a moment, - not even then.""Was he good to you?""Good to me! Well; - he like
- 306 "Nevertheless, my Lord, I've got to tell it. It was Green who put me up to it. He did it just for the plunder. As G.o.d is my judge it was not for the money I did it.""Then it was revenge.""It was the devil got hold of me, my
- 305 "But he may perhaps think that a little patience will do us good. You will have to soften him." Then Silverbridge told all that he knew about himself. He was to be married in May, was to go to Matching for a week or two after his wedding, was th
- 304 "But in saying so I was accusing you of cowardice; - was I not?""It was not cowardice.""Why then did you not come?""I thought you would hardly wish to see me so soon, - after what pa.s.sed.""That is honest at a
- 303 "She's gone.""Gone! Where on earth has she gone to?" asked Silverbridge, as though fearing lest she had been carried off to the other side of the Atlantic. Then Mrs. Bonca.s.sen explained. Within the last three minutes Mrs. Montac
- 302 CHAPTER LXX."Love May Be a Great Misfortune"Silverbridge when he reached Brook Street that day was surprised to find that a large party was going to lunch there. Isabel had asked him to come, and he had thought her the dearest girl in the world
- 301 "But I am sure that rhapsodies won't do any good. Now I'll tell you my mind.""You know mine," said Silverbridge."I will take it for granted that I do. Your mind is to marry me will ye nill ye, as the people say." He
- 300 To this he made no reply, nor was there anything else said upon the subject before the carriage drove up to the railway station. "Do not get out, dear," he said, seeing that her eyes had been filled with tears. "It is not worth while. G.o.d
- 299 "All what, sir?""Are there other debts?" To this Gerald made no reply. "Other gambling debts.""No, sir; - not a s.h.i.+lling of that kind. I have never played before.""Does it ever occur to you that going on at that rate you may very soon lose al
- 298 "Then I certainly shan't want to see her again.""And she talks as I never heard a lady talk before.""Then I don't care if I never see her at all.""But she is the most plucky and most good-natured human being I ever saw in my life. After all, hunt
- 297 "I do not want to escape.""She has indicated the cause which will separate you.""I will not be separated from her," said Silverbridge, who was beginning to feel that he was subjugated to tyranny. If he chose to marry Isabel, no one could have a righ
- 296 Lady Mabel at once went up to her room. She had played her scene, but was well aware that she had played it altogether unsuccessfully.CHAPTER LX.Lord Gerald in Further Trouble When Silverbridge got back to the house he was by no means well pleased with hi
- 295 "That is so like a man and so unlike a woman. What did he say? What did he do? How did he look? What did you say? What did you do? How did you look?""We looked very miserable, when we got wet through, walking about all day in the rain.""Was that nece
- 294 At last it was decided that a general meeting of the members of the hunt should be called together with the express object of getting rid of the Major. The gentlemen of the neighbourhood felt that the Major was not to be borne, and the farmers were very m
- 293 "I must dress now, sir; but I will tell you all about it when I get back from Cornwall. I will come back direct to Matching, and will explain everything." So he escaped.It was clear to Lady Mabel that there was no opportunity now for any scheme. Whateve
- 292 "I don't know about that. I don't think that counts for much. People don't always know who are their equals.""That is quite true. If I were speaking to you or to your father theoretically I should perhaps be unwilling to admit superiority on your si
- 291 "I was not asked.""Nor was he.""Then all I can say is," replied Silverbridge, speaking in a low voice, but with considerable energy, "that he can use a freedom with Lady Mabel Grex upon which I cannot venture.""I believe you begrudge me his frien
- 290 "I hope so.""Whom would you like to have here?""I don't want any one, papa.""You will be very sad without somebody. Would you like the Finns?""If you please, papa. I like her. He never talks anything but politics.""He is none the worse for tha
- 289 "Plantagenet; - but we always call him Silverbridge.""Plantagenet is very much prettier. I shall always call him Plantagenet. But I recall that. You will not remember that against me?""I will remember nothing that you do not wish.
- 288 "My father has nothing to do with it, and I don't know what settlements mean. We never think anything of settlements in our country. If two young people love each other they go and get married.""Let us do the same here.""But
- 287 CHAPTER XLVI.Lady Mary's Dream When the Duke and his daughter reached Custins they found a large party a.s.sembled, and were somewhat surprised at the crowd. Lord and Lady Nidderdale were there, which might have been expected as they were part of the
- 286 "If what?""If you go to the Jews for it then it will become a great deal.""I shall certainly not do that.""Then you may regard it as a trifle," said Lupton."No, I can't. It is not a trifle. I must tell my
- 285 "A great deal nicer. Of course I am bound to say so.""But in truth, I want to find out what you really like. Men are so different. You need not pay me any compliment; you know that well enough.""I like you better than Dobbes, - if
- 284 "She did to-day - a little."The next day Lady Mary could not leave her bed; and the Duke in his sorrow was obliged to apply to Mrs. Finn. After what had pa.s.sed on the previous day Mrs. Finn of course called, and was shown at once up to her you
- 283 At first the conversation was about indifferent things, - Killancodlem and Mrs. Jones, Crummie-Toddie and Reginald Dobbes. They had gone along the high-road as far as the post-office, and had turned up through the wood and reached a seat whence there was
- 282 Very little was said between Silverbridge and Miss Bonca.s.sen which did not refer to the game. But Lady Mabel, looking on, told herself that they were making love to each other before her eyes. And why shouldn't they? She asked herself that question
- 281 "Have you ever said that nothing could alter that love?""Indeed I have.""But it is altered. It has all gone. It has been transferred to one who has more advantages of beauty, youth, wealth, and position.""Oh Mabel, Mabel
- 280 "And her manners so perfect. She has all her mother's ease without any of that - You know what I mean.""Quite so," said his Lords.h.i.+p."And then she has got so much in her.""Has she though?""I don't
- 279 When the old lady in the portrait had been discussed, Popplecourt was close to Lady Mary. They two had no idea why such vicinity had been planned. The Duke knew, of course, and Lady Cantrip. Lady Cantrip had whispered to her daughter that such a marriage
- 278 "I should not mind," said Silverbridge."I dare say not, because you have nothing particular to say. But the principle is the same. Lawyers and doctors and parsons talk of privileged communications. Why should not a young lady have her privi
- 277 "What I say is true. I hope it will have that effect. It had with you, my dear.""I don't know that people didn't think of me as much as of anybody else, even though I was married.""Then, my dear, I never knew it."Mi
- 276 "Was she a G.o.ddess?""It is something built to her memory. Such a view of the river! I was here once before and they took me up there. Everybody who comes here goes and sees Mrs. Arthur de Bever. They ought to have told you.""Let
- 275 "Yes; I dare say," said Silverbridge, turning away into the path where he saw Miss Bonca.s.sen standing with some other ladies. It certainly did not occur to him that Popplecourt was to be brought forward as a suitor for his sister's hand.&
- 274 "Do you not know what my wishes are?""Certainly I do; - but I could not help his coming. You do not suppose that anybody had planned it?""I hope not.""It was simply an accident. Such an accident as must occur over and ov
- 273 The Lovers Meet Lord Silverbridge found his sister alone. "I particularly want you," said he, "to come and call on Mabel Grex. She wishes to know you, and I am sure you would like her.""But I haven't been out anywhere yet,&qu
- 272 "It is the one place you do like, sir.""However, we can manage all that. Carlton Terrace I do not particularly like; but it is a good house, and there you should hang up your hat when in London. When it is settled, let me know at once."
- 271 "Unless a man has on his shoulders the burden of a wife and children he should, I think, feel that he has s.h.i.+rked out of school. He is not doing his share of the work of the Commonwealth.""Pitt was not married, sir.""No; - and
- 270 "You do not quite understand me, I fear. The only case in which you can be justified in desiring that which you cannot afford is when the thing is necessary; - as bread may be, or clothes.""As when a fellow wants a lot of new breeches befor
- 269 "It can be nothing to me. If you write she will show your letter either to her father or to Lady Cantrip.""But she will read it first.""I cannot tell how that may be. In fact I am the very last person in the world to whom you shou
- 268 The wonder is that there should ever be in a reforming party enough of consentaneous action to carry any reform. The reforming or Liberal party in British politics had thus stumbled, - and stumbled till it fell. And now there had been a great Conservative
- 267 CHAPTER XX."Then He Will Come Again"Lady Mabel, when her young lover left her, was for a time freed from the necessity of thinking about him by her father. He had returned from the Oaks in a very bad humour. Lord Grex had been very badly treated
- 266 "Dolly will take the team," said his Lords.h.i.+p."Yes; - decidedly. I will take the team," said Dolly. "There isn't a deal of driving wanted on the road to Epsom, but a man should know how to hold his reins." This of co
- 265 Lord Gerald raged against the restriction very loudly. He at first proclaimed his intention of ignoring the college authorities altogether. Of course he would be expelled. But the order itself was to his thinking so absurd, - the idea that he should not s
- 264 My dear Silverbridge, I am glad that you are in Parliament and am glad also that you should have been returned by the old borough; though I would that you could have reconciled yourself to adhering to the politics of your family. But there is nothing disg
- 263 "Something of that kind.""Of course I have to trust to her for that. If she forgets me, well and good.""She needn't forget you. Lord bless me! you talk as though the thing were not done every day. You'll hear some mornin
- 262 "I am quite ashamed of giving you so much trouble," Lady Mary said to her new friend."We are delighted to have you, my dear.""But I know that you have been obliged to leave London because I am with you.""There is nothing
- 261 "Has she got money?""I believe she will have a great deal.""Then she is a great fool for her pains," said the Earl, shambling off again.Lady Mabel spent the greater part of the afternoon alone, endeavouring to recall to her m
- 260 "Then I shall go down too," said Miss Ca.s.sewary."You'll do nothing of the kind. Will you please to tell me what it is you are afraid of? Do you think that Frank is going to make love to me again?""No.""Or that if
- 259 "No doubt. I should, I know.""And therefore it wouldn't do for you to live here; and then papa is living here himself. And then the permission never has been given. I suppose Frank did not go there at first without the Duke knowing it.
- 258 "Oh, certainly," said Silverbridge.CHAPTER VIII."He Is a Gentleman"The Duke returned to Matching an almost broken-hearted man. He had intended to go down into Ba.r.s.ets.h.i.+re, in reference to the coming elections; - not with the vie
- 257 "That's all very well if you happen to be up. Well, Silverbridge, how's the Prime Minister?""How is he, Tifto?" asked the n.o.ble partner."I don't think there's a man in England just at present enjoying a very
- 256 "I shall not mind that, papa.""But very probably I may have to go into Ba.r.s.ets.h.i.+re. Would you not be happier if you would let me write to Lady Cantrip, and tell her that you will go to her?""No, papa, I think not. There are
- 255 "Yes; only the day before yesterday. It is very good of you to come to me so soon.""Of course I came when you sent for me. I am afraid the Duke felt his loss severely.""How should he not, such a loss as it was? Few people knew how
- 254 "No, my dear; you are too young for that. It is only the old who suffer in that way.""You will suffer less if I am with you; won't you, papa? I do not want to go to Lady Cantrip. I hardly remember her at all.""She is very goo
- 253 Not long after this the Duke took Mr. Monk, who had come down to Matching for a few days, out to the very spot on which he had sat when he indulged himself in lecturing Phineas Finn on Conservatism and Liberalism generally, and then asked the Chancellor o
- 252 CHAPTER LXXIX.The Wharton Wedding It was at last settled that the Wharton marriage should take place during the second week in June. There were various reasons for the postponement. In the first place Mary Wharton, after a few preliminary inquiries, found
- 251 "Settled! No, indeed. Nothing is settled." At that moment indeed everything was settled, though the d.u.c.h.ess did not know it. "And so we none of us can tell how Mr. Fletcher may stand with us when things are arranged. I suppose he calls
- 250 CHAPTER LXXVI.Who Will It Be?For the first day or two after the resignation of the Ministry the d.u.c.h.ess appeared to take no further notice of the matter. An ungrateful world had repudiated her and her husband, and he had foolishly a.s.sisted and given
- 249 "But do you love me?""I cannot a.n.a.lyse my heart. Love you; - yes! I have always loved you. Everything about you is dear to me. I can triumph in your triumphs, rejoice at your joy, weep at your sorrows, be ever anxious that all good thing
- 248 Without waiting a moment after his colleague's departure, the Prime Minister, - for he was still Prime Minister, - went into his wife's room, knowing that she was waiting up till she should hear the result of the division, and there he found Mrs
- 247 "On the contrary, I have but little to think of, - and my thoughts must be very much engaged, indeed, when they shall be too full to admit of my seeing you.""Of course we are all anxious about this Bill." The Prime Minister smiled. Anx
- 246 On that day John Fletcher took her out to dinner, and Arthur did not sit near her. In the evening he came to her as she was working close to his mother, and seated himself on a low chair close to her knees. "We are all so glad to see you; are we not,
- 245 "We have certainly settled nothing.""Then you must have disagreed.""That we as certainly have not done. We have in truth not once been out of cloud-land.""Ah; - then there is no hope. When once grown-up politicians get i
- 244 "You don't mean that she has - a lover?""Well; - yes.""And she lost her husband only the other day, - lost him in so terrible a manner! If that is so, certainly I do not wish to see her again.""Ah, that is because y
- 243 "I think you are Quixotic. A Prime Minister is of all men bound to follow the traditions of his country, or, when he leaves them, to leave them with very gradual steps.""And if he break that law and throw over all that thraldom; - what then
- 242 "No, Duke, - no! He and I are very different. He only wants to be useful. At any rate, that was all he did want.""He is still the same.""A man cannot always be carrying a huge load up a hill without having his back bent."&quo
- 241 "Very well, papa. If you think so, of course I will not. Perhaps it would be an inconvenience, if she were really to come." On the next day she did write a note, not quite so cold as that which her father proposed, but still saying nothing as to
- 237 "I have told him nothing. He knows that I do not wish to go. He cannot but know that. But he knows that I mean to go if you require it.""And you will do nothing for me?""Nothing, - in regard to my father." He raised his fist
- 236 "Certainly I am.""What security am I to have?""Security?""Yes; - that if I pay it I shall not be troubled again by the meanest scoundrel that it has ever been my misfortune to meet. How am I to know that you will not com
- 235 "Mr. Wharton, as I said just now, I am bound to hear and to bear from you anything that you may choose to say. Your connection with my wife and your age alike restrain my resentment. But I am not bound to answer your questions when they are accompani
- 234 "You certainly were not wrong. I had led the man on. I had been mistaken. I had thought that he was a gentleman. Having led him on at first, before you had spoken to me, I did not like to go back from my word. I did go to the man at Silverbridge who
- 233 "Then I think your Grace should state it.""I cannot do so.""The Duke of St. Bungay is here. Would it not be well to tell the whole affair to him?""I will think of it. I do not know why I should have troubled you."&q
- 232 "Guatemala! Where is Guatemala, Ferdinand?""You can answer my question though your geography is deficient.""He has said nothing about your going anywhere.""You will have to go, - as soon after Christmas as you may be fit
- 231 Mrs. d.i.c.k looked at Lopez, and saw at a glance that for a moment his courage had failed him. But he recovered himself quickly. "Hadn't you better keep your seat, my dear?" he said to his wife. "The servants will attend to Mr. Wharto
- 240 "Why not? I should lie to you if I pretended that I was angry with him for what he did.""Perhaps you will tell me that you love him.""Of course I love him. There are different kinds of love, Ferdinand. There is that which a woman
- 239 "And am living in your father's house.""That, again, is a misfortune which it appears difficult to remedy. You have been told to go, and you won't go.""Your ingrat.i.tude, sir, is marvellous! Who saved your life when you
- 238 "And what had Mrs. Parker to say?""That you had ruined her husband.""Exactly. When a man speculates and doesn't win of course he throws the blame on some one else. And when he is too much of a cur to come himself, he sends hi
- 230 "How do you suppose he made his money to begin with? What an a.s.s you are!""That's true. I am. Ever since I began putting my name on the same bit of paper with yours I've been an a.s.s.""You'll have to be one a bit
- 229 "He's got the money?""Yes; - he has got it safe enough. There's no doubt about the money.""What he talks about is only a will. Now you want the money at once.""Of course I do; - and he talks to me as if I were
- 228 She sat for the next ten minutes thinking of it all. The words which he had spoken were so horrible that she could not get them out of her mind, - could not bring herself to look upon them as a trifle. The darkness of his countenance still dwelt with her,
- 227 "Then should you too be thin-skinned for my sake.""I wish I could make you thick-skinned for your own. It's the only way to be decently comfortable in such a coa.r.s.e, rough-and-tumble world as this is.""Let us both do our b
- 226 "Oh, Mr. Warburton! No doubt Mr. Warburton will come as a part of his luggage, and possibly half-a-dozen Treasury clerks. He declares, however, that there is nothing to do, and therefore Mr. Warburton's strength may alone suffice to help him to
- 225 "I thought the d.u.c.h.ess was a great friend of yours," said Mr. Wharton."I don't care much for such friends.h.i.+p. She threw me over most shamefully.""And therefore, of course, you are justified in taking away her characte
- 224 "Get Round Him"Ferdinand Lopez maintained his anger against his wife for more than a week after the scene at Richmond, feeding it with reflections on what he called her disobedience. Nor was it a make-believe anger. She had declared her intentio
- 223 "Indeed I was. I never heard such nonsense.""What were they saying?""Oh, the old story; - that you were like Martha, busying yourself about many things.""Why shouldn't I busy myself about many things? It is a pity,
- 222 He saw s.e.xty Parker in the city that day, and used his cheque for 500 in some triumphant way, partly cajoling and partly bullying his poor victim. To s.e.xty also he had to tell his own story about the row down at Silverbridge. He had threatened to thra
- 221 It was after that, but on the same day, that Lopez and Fletcher met each other in the street. The affair did not take a minute, and then they parted, each on his own way. In the course of that evening Mr. Sprugeon told his candidate that he, Sprugeon, cou
- 220 "You did it because Major Pountney disgusted you. You kicked him out. Why wouldn't that satisfy you without sacrificing the borough? It isn't what I think or say about it, but that everybody is thinking and saying the same thing.""
- 219 "No; - they make it infinitely worse. He should have felt himself to be debarred from writing to you, both as being my wife and as being the wife of the man whom he intends to oppose at Silverbridge."This he said with so much anger that he frigh
- 218 "I don't think he will look upon me as a stranger.""We'll see," said Lopez.It was not long before he made the experiment. He had called himself a coward as to the opening of the d.u.c.h.ess's letter, but he had in truth
- 217 "The d.u.c.h.ess did, I dare say.""How odd it would be if she were to suppose that you had asked him.""The d.u.c.h.ess, no doubt, knows all about it." Then there was a little pause. "She is obliged to have all sorts of p
- 216 "You want him to give you some money at once.""It would not be unusual, dear, - when there is money to be given. But I want you specially to ask him what he himself would propose to do. He knows already that I have taken a home for you and
- 215 About ten on the following morning Lopez came and asked for Mr. Wharton. He was shown into the study, where he found the old man, and at once began to give his account of the whole concern in an easy, unconcerned manner. He had the large black patch on th
- 214 "There are occasional vacancies," said Lopez."Is there a chance of anything of that kind falling in your way?""I think there is. I can't quite tell you all the particulars because other people are concerned, but I don't
- 213 "Why not? - why shouldn't I talk to Lady Rosina De Courcy?""I'm not jealous a bit, if you mean that. I don't think Lady Rosina will steal your heart from me. But why you should pick her out of all the people here, when there
- 212 "Send up to Pudd.i.c.k's for sheets to-morrow. Why wasn't that thought of before?""It was, my lady, - and I think we shall do. We've got the steam-washery put up.""Towels!" suggested the d.u.c.h.ess."Oh ye
- 211 "It must be so. There will be nothing wrong in that. Every one has some dearest friend, and you will always be mine. If anything of evil should ever happen to you, - which of course there won't, - there would be some one who would - . But I don&
- 210 "It doesn't matter much.""I should have thought it would matter; - that is, if you mean to go on with it.""I'm not going to make a slave of myself about it, if you mean that. I don't suppose I shall ever marry, - an