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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
- 1 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
- 2 "John," she said at last, "do not press me about this till I return.""But then you will say the time is short. It would be short then.""I cannot answer you now; - indeed, I cannot. That is I cannot answer in the affirmat
- 3 "It's envy that makes us want to get married, - not love," said Kate."It's the devil in some shape, as often as not," said he. "With a man, marriage always seems to him to be an evil at the instant.""Not always
- 4 "Why is it?""Because it is on the cards that she may help George in his career. I do not want money, but he may. And for such purposes as his, I think it fair that all the family should contribute. I feel sure that he would make a name for
- 5 "Then Mrs Jones's," said Mrs Greenow. "But I was particularly told it was the largest in the row.""I know Mrs Jones's well," said the driver, and away they went.Mrs Jones's house was handsome and comfortable; b
- 6 "Nor with so much true wit," said her sister Charlotte, - who had been called Charlie on the sands of Yarmouth for the last twelve years.When the widow came into the room, they flew at her and devoured her with kisses, and swore that they had ne
- 7 "Oh; farming!" answered Maria's mother."Mr Cheesacre thinks that turnips are better than early mangels," said Mrs Greenow."Yes, I do," said Cheesacre, "I prefer the early mangels," said Mrs Greenow. "I don
- 8 He had purposed to be firm, - to yield to her in nothing, resolving to treat all that she might say as the hallucination of a sickened imagination, - as the effect of absolute want of health, for which some change in her mode of life would be the best cur
- 9 "Five years or fifteen would make no difference," said Scruby. "You couldn't do it.""And I ain't a going to try. That's not the ticket I've come here about, Mr Vavasor, this blessed Sunday morning. Going to law
- 10 "Haven't I? I thought I had.""Not heartily like that. I know that people abuse me; - my own people, my grandfather, and probably your father, - saying that I am reckless and the rest of it. I do risk everything for my object; but I do
- 11 "Have you not? I am glad at any rate to hear you deny it. But you will understand what I mean. When a gentleman gets his dismissal from a lady he should accept it, - that is, his dismissal under such circ.u.mstances as I have received mine. But I can
- 12 Edgehill was a favourite meet in that country, partly because foxes were very abundant in the great wood adjacent, partly because the whole country around is gra.s.s-land, and partly, no doubt, from the sporting propensities of the neighbouring population
- 13 I have been advised that a line from me as representing your poor mother's family, especially as I have at the present moment the opportunity of expressing Lady Auld Reekie's sentiments as well as my own, might be of service. I implore you, my d
- 14 "No, indeed," said Miss Fairstairs. "I'm told that his house and all about it is quite beautiful.""Especially the straw-yard and the horse-pond," said the Captain. And then they drank the health of their absent friend.It
- 15 "How did you learn that I was going?" she said."I heard it from a friend of mine. Well; - from Burgo Fitzgerald, if you must know.""From Mr Fitzgerald?" said Alice, in profound astonishment: "How could Mr Fitzgerald have
- 16 "The Duke did it all. He understands such things thoroughly. Now to Mr Palliser a dressing-room is a dressing-room, and a bedroom a bedroom. He cares for nothing being pretty; not even his wife, or he wouldn't have married me.""You wou
- 17 "I should think you would soon find yourself able to get the better of that if he tries it upon you," said Lady Glencora; and then the ladies were all in the drawing-room together."It is quite deliciously warm, coming from one room to anoth
- 18 "Upon my word it would be very nice; - and then perhaps some day you'd be the d.u.c.h.ess.""Glencora, don't talk such nonsense.""Those are the speculations which people make. Only I should spite you by killing myself, so
- 19 "Then I don't understand it," said Lady Glencora; and, in truth, close as was their intimacy, they did not perfectly understand each other.But on this occasion they were speaking of Jeffrey Palliser. "I declare I don't think he co
- 20 "And Lady Macleod has often spoken to me of your ladys.h.i.+p," said Alice."Then we know each other's names," said the Countess; "and it will be well that we should be acquainted with each other's persons. I am becoming
- 21 "Tempt me to be false! Why, child, it has been all false throughout. I never loved him. How can you talk in that way, when you know that I never loved him? They browbeat me and frightened me till I did as I was told; - and now; - what am I now?"
- 22 "It is what she did. She would have married Mr Fitzgerald, had she not been hindered by the advice of those around her. It cannot be supposed that she has forgotten him in so short a time. There can be no guilt in her remembrance.""There is
- 23 As he walked on, thinking of his project, he strove hard to cheat himself into a belief that he would do a good thing in carrying Lady Glencora away from her husband. Bad as had been his life he had never before done aught so bad as that. The more fixed h
- 24 "I cannot tell you before you move, Kate.""And why not?""Because I have not as yet resolved.""Ah, that is impossible. That is quite impossible. On such a subject and under such circ.u.mstances a woman must resolve at the
- 25 Monkshade When the first of the new year came round Lady Glencora was not keeping her appointment at Lady Monk's house. She went to Gatherum Castle, and let us hope that she enjoyed the magnificent Christmas hospitality of the Duke; but when the time
- 26 "I should only say that so much of your fortune was thrown away, and if it were not much that would be an end of it. I would sooner see you surrender to him the half of all you have, without any engagement to marry him, than know that he had received
- 27 "Is there anything wrong?" said Seward."Well; - yes; there is something a little wrong. I fear I must leave you, and go up to town to-day.""n.o.body ill, I hope?""No; - n.o.body is ill. But I must go up to London. Mrs Bo
- 28 We all of us know that swindlers and rogues do very dirty tricks, and we are apt to picture to ourselves a certain amount of gusto and delight on the part of the swindlers in the doing of them. In this, I think we are wrong. The poor, broken, semi-genteel
- 29 "We'll manage that for you at the Hall.""Indeed you won't do anything of the kind. And look, Kate, when I make that excuse don't you offer to do so. I will stay there over to-morrow night, and shall go into Kendal early, so a
- 30 "Looking well," said the widow, in answer to some outspoken compliment from Mr Cheesacre. "Yes, I'm well enough in health, and I suppose I ought to be thankful that it is so. But if you had buried a wife whom you had loved within the l
- 31 A n.o.ble Lord Dies George Vavasor remained about four days beneath his grandfather's roof; but he was not happy there himself, nor did he contribute to the happiness of any one else. He remained there in great discomfort so long, being unwilling to
- 32 "Well, in one sense, he does. But I don't suppose I shall ever make you understand." He endeavoured, however, to do so on the present occasion, and gave her a somewhat longer lecture on the working of the British Const.i.tution, and the man
- 33 "And that will be the beginning and the end of it.""I'm afraid not, my dear. It may perhaps be the end of it, but I fear it won't be the beginning. I won't be persecuted. If she gives me advice, I shall tell her to her face t
- 34 "And, Alice, I hope that you are proud of your lover!" "He is not my lover," Alice said to herself. "He knows that he is not. He understands it, though she may not." And if not your lover, Alice Vavasor, what is he then to yo
- 35 "You're a young thing, Jeannette.""Well, ma'am - yes; I am young, no doubt. But I won't say but what I've had a beau, young as I look.""But you don't suppose that I want beaux, as you call them?""
- 36 "Come, Mr Cheesacre, that's rank jealousy. What right can you have to ask me whether I shall take any man or no man? The chances are that I shall remain as I am till I'm carried to my grave; but I'm not going to give any pledge about i
- 37 "Duennas!" After that, Lady Glencora sat herself down, and Mr Palliser stood for some moments looking at her.It ended in his making her a long speech, in which he said a good deal of his own justice and forbearance, and something also of her fri
- 38 These questions were asked and answered as he was putting her into the carriage. She got in just as she asked the last, and he, as he took his seat, did not find it necessary to answer it. But that would not serve her turn. "What made Mrs Marsham go
- 39 "Or we might manage to polish him off in any other way, you know."It was some time before Mr Grey could get rid of the tailor, but he did so at last without having told any part of the story to that warlike, worthy, and very anxious individual.C
- 40 "I've no doubt he was an excellent man.""You may say that, John. Ah, well! we can't keep everything in this life for ever." It may, perhaps, be as well to explain now that Mrs Greenow had told Captain Bellfield at their last
- 41 "I know nothing of it," said Kate. "Had I known I should have told you. Your question is unjust to me.""I am beginning to doubt," said he, "whether a man can be safe in trusting any one. My grandfather has done his best
- 42 "Is it not odd that such an accident should come from a fall whilst walking?" asked Mr Vavasor.The doctor shrugged his shoulders. "One never can say how anything may occur," said he. "I know a young woman who broke the os femoris
- 43 "No; I do not.""Then it is ign.o.ble in you to talk to me of spies. I have employed no spies. If it were ever to come to that, that I thought spies necessary, it would be all over with me."There was something of feeling in his voice as
- 44 "Let him come up," she said. "But I think, Jane, you ought to ask him his name." Jane did ask him his name, and came back immediately, announcing Mr Levy.This occurred immediately after the return of Mr John Vavasor from Westmoreland.
- 45 "But how if she never becomes your wife? I'm beginning to think she'll never do anything like any other woman.""I'm not quite sure that you understand her," said Grey; "though of course you ought to do so better tha
- 46 "Those men do. The worst is, they see more than everything. But, at any rate, Mr Palliser has got over all that now. Come, Alice; the fact of the offer having come from himself should disarm you of any such objection as that. As he has held out his h
- 47 "How am I to tell you what he said? He talked nonsense about my beauty, as all the men do. If a woman were hump-backed, and had only one eye, they wouldn't be ashamed to tell her she was a Venus.""But, aunt, you are a handsome woman, y
- 48 "You might as well, you know, - just once.""Captain Bellfield, I brought you out here not for such fooling as that, but in order that we might have a little chat about business. If we are to be man and wife, as you say, we ought to understa
- 49 "To the workhouse, if you like. He doesn't care.""I don't suppose he does; - the least in the world," said Burgo, opening his eyes, and stretching his nostrils, and looking into his aunt's face as though he had great gro
- 50 He still held her, but she would have been gone from him had he not stooped over her, and put his arm round her waist. In doing this, I doubt whether he was quicker than she would have been had she chosen to resist him. As it was, he pressed her to his bo
- 51 "Yes, an accident. You don't suppose that I sat down there meaning to win all that money?" Whereupon he looked at her with scorn."Mr Palliser," said Alice, "you have treated me this evening in a manner I did not expect from y
- 52 "Glencora suggests that we should ask him to dinner," said Mr Palliser; and then that matter was settled.But Mr Grey did not wait till dinner-time to see Alice. Early in the morning his card was brought up, and Lady Glencora, as soon as she saw
- 53 CHAPTER LXXII.Showing How George Vavasor Paid a Visit It was nearly seven o'clock in the evening, - a hot, July evening, - when the woman went from Vavasor's room, and left him there alone. It was necessary that he should immediately do somethin
- 54 "The coddling will all be given to some one else, very soon.""No baby could possibly live through it, if you mean that. If there is a baby - ""I suppose there will be one, by-and-by," said Alice."Don't be a fool! Bu
- 55 "He will like it better, I dare say, if you will sit upon his knee. Some penitents do, you know. And how happy you will be! He'll never explain the sugar-duties to you, and there'll be no Mr Bott at Nethercoats." They sat together the
- 56 "What will I do? Ah! That's the question. I don't know what I will do. I have the key of my bedroom in my pocket, and I will go to bed to-night. It's not very often that I look forward much beyond that.""Will you let me call
- 57 Alice remained a week with her aunt, and went from thence direct to Westmoreland. Some order as to bridal preparations we must presume she gave on that single day which she pa.s.sed in London. Much advice she had received on this head from Lady Glencora,
- 58 "Oh, yes; he'll be in Parliament. I don't understand all about it. There is a man going out for the county, - for Ba.r.s.ets.h.i.+re, - some man whom the Duke used to favour, and he wants Plantagenet to come in for that. I can't unders
- 59 PHINEAS FINN.The Irish Member.First published in serial form in St. Paul's Magazine.beginning in 1867 and in book form in 1869.VOLUME I.CHAPTER I.Phineas Finn Proposes to Stand for Loughshane Dr. Finn, of Killaloe, in county Clare, was as well known
- 60 "Nonsense. I don't believe that.""She would look as though she were, standing by you.""Because I am so insignificant and small.""Because your figure is perfect, and because she is straggling. She is as unlike you as
- 61 "Here is Mr. Kennedy too; - you know him I daresay. He also is a member; but then he can afford to be idle." But it so happened that Phineas did not know Mr. Kennedy, and consequently there was some slight form of introduction."I believe I
- 62 "Then why did Lord de Terrier dissolve?""A Prime Minister is quite right to dissolve in such a position," said Lord Brentford. "He must do so for the Queen's sake. It is his only chance.""Just so. It is, as you say,
- 63 CHAPTER VIII.The News about Mr. Mildmay and Sir Everard Fitzgibbon and Phineas started together from Pall Mall for Portman Square, - as both of them had promised to call on Lady Laura, - but Fitzgibbon turned in at Brooks's as they walked up St. Jame
- 64 The political portion of London was in a ferment for the next five days. On the Sunday morning it was known that Mr. Mildmay had declined to put himself at the head of a liberal Government. He and the Duke of St. Bungay, and Mr. Plantagenet Palliser, had
- 65 "You mean to say that he drinks too much?""I do not say so. People say so. The dragon says so. And as I always find her sayings to be untrue, I suppose this is like the rest of them.""It is untrue if it be said of him as a habit.&
- 66 "And why?""In the first place it is civil in him to ask you, and why should you be uncivil in return?""There is nothing uncivil in not accepting a man's invitation," said Phineas."We are going," said Lady Laura
- 67 "And it belonged to the Mackenzies.""Yes; - to the Mackenzie of Linn, as he was called. It was Mr. Kennedy, the old man, who was first called Loughlinter. That is Linn Castle, and they lived there for hundreds of years. But these Highlander
- 68 "After all that climbing," he said, "will you not sit down for a moment?" As he spoke to her she looked at him and told herself that he was as handsome as a G.o.d. "Do sit down for one moment," he said. "I have something
- 69 Yours umbly and respectful, Jane Bunce.To this he replied that he would certainly come back to the rooms in Great Marlborough Street, should he be lucky enough to find them vacant, and he expressed his willingness to take them on and from the 1st of Febru
- 70 "That is a question which a man may hardly answer himself," said Mr. Monk."It is a question which a man should at least answer for himself before he consents to sit there," said Mr. Turnbull, in a tone of voice which was almost angry.&
- 71 "Exactly," said Lord Chiltern. "I have nothing but hunting that I can call an occupation.""Why don't you make one?" said his sister."I mean to do so, if it be possible. Laura, would you mind leaving me and Miss Effi
- 72 "Simply because I care so much what Mr. Kennedy's wife may think. Your opinion is all in all to me, - only that I know you are too kind to me.""He would not be too kind to you. He is never too kind to any one. He is justice itself.&quo
- 73 "Yes, I do. I like him decidedly.""So do I. I should hardly have thought that you would have taken a fancy to him.""I hardly know what you call taking a fancy," said Violet. "I am not quite sure I like to be told that I
- 74 "I must go back on Wednesday," said Phineas."That means Wednesday night. I'll tell you what we'll do. We've the Cottesmore to-morrow. We'll get into Tailby's country on Tuesday, and Fitzwilliam will be only twelve m
- 75 "How lucky that you should be there! Had you jumped the river?""Yes; - almost unintentionally, for my horse was rus.h.i.+ng so that I could not hold him. Chiltern was riding a brute that no one should have ridden. No one will again."&q
- 76 "We must go to the country, I suppose," said the Earl."What's the use? You can't have a more liberal House than you have now," said Lady Laura."We may have one less liberal, - or rather less radical, - with fewer men to
- 77 "There ain't n.o.body to pay for it," said Bunce, waxing angry."Then I certainly should not pay for it myself if I were you," said Mr. Low.But Bunce was not to be counselled out of his intention. When he was out in the square with
- 78 "And you stopped him?""Yes; - I got there just in time. Wasn't it lucky?""You ought to be garrotted yourself. I should have lent the man a hand had I been there.""How can you say anything so horrible? But you are dr
- 79 "Phineas," she said, slowly, "I have in you such perfect confidence that I will tell you the truth; - as one man may tell it to another. I wish you would go from here.""What, at once?""Not to-day, or to-morrow. Stay here
- 80 "Ah, well; I don't agree with you, and I daresay I know them both better than you do. But everything goes against me. I had set my heart upon it, and therefore of course I shall be disappointed. What is he going to do this autumn?""He
- 81 And then there came a wonderful piece of luck in his way. There lived, or had lived, in the town of Galway a very eccentric old lady, one Miss Marian Persse, who was the aunt of Mrs. Finn, the mother of our hero. With this lady Dr. Finn had quarrelled per
- 82 "You will remember, of course, that I can only answer to the best of my belief.""Answer to the best of your belief.""I think she regards me as an intimate friend.""Had you said as an indifferent acquaintance, you would,
- 83 There was something in this which made Lady Laura feel that she could not maintain her hostility against this man on behalf of her brother; - and yet she could not force herself to be other than hostile to him. Her heart was sore, and it was he that had m
- 84 "I believe so also," said Phineas. Then he paused a moment before he continued to speak. "I cannot say that I know Miss Effingham very intimately, but from what I have seen of her, I should think it very probable that she may not marry at a
- 85 "He would have done his duty, and so perhaps did Mr. Finn.""Of course he did, aunt. It couldn't have been his duty to stand by and see Mr. Kennedy throttled. And he nearly killed one of the men, and took the other prisoner with his own
- 86 "I was not, - when I first heard of it. Why did they promote that empty-headed countryman of yours to a place for which he was quite unfit? I was not contented. But then I am more ambitious for you than you are for yourself." He sat without answ
- 87 "Why have you come to tell me to marry Mr. Phineas Finn? That is what I want to know. Mr. Phineas Finn, as far as I am aware, has not a s.h.i.+lling in the world, - except a month's salary now due to him from the Government. Mr. Phineas Finn I b
- 88 Mr. Turnbull carried his clause, and Loughton was doomed. Loughton and the other six deadly sins were anathematized, exorcised, and finally got rid of out of the world by the voices of the gentlemen who had been proclaiming the beauty of such pleasant vic
- 89 "I don't see why you should have done that.""Because I was the biggest fool of the two. Do you remember when that brute got me down under the bank in the river? That was about the nearest touch I ever had. Lord bless me; - how he did s
- 90 "Of course you know that Morris is very ill." This Mr. Morris was the brother of Lord Tulla, and was the sitting member of Loughshane. "Upon my word I think I should try that. I don't see where we're to put our hands on a seat in
- 91 "You have the law on your side.""I am not speaking of the law.""Well; - go on, Robert. I will not interrupt you if I can help it.""I am not speaking of the law. I am speaking simply of convenience, and of that which you
- 92 "So much for the better that I hardly know myself in my new joy. But, Violet, we'll have no delay, - will we? No s.h.i.+lly-shallying. What is the use of waiting now that it's settled?""None in the least, Lord Chiltern. Let us say
- 93 "I do believe it, if Mr. Finn says so," said Mrs. Bonteen, who rather liked the confusion she had caused."But who could have told you, Finn?" asked Mr. Bonteen."His sister, Lady Laura, told me so," said Phineas."Then it
- 94 CHAPTER LV.Lord Chiltern at Saulsby Lord Chiltern did exactly as he said he would do. He wrote to his father as he pa.s.sed through Carlisle, and at once went on to his hunting at Willingford. But his letter was very stiff and ungainly, and it may be doub
- 95 "You would not be a drone in the hive always?""As far as I can see, sir, we who call ourselves lords generally are drones.""I deny it," said the Earl, becoming quite energetic as he defended his order. "I deny it utterly
- 96 "He is always getting fond of some woman, and he will to the end," said Mr. Palliser."But this Madame Max Goesler is very clever.""So they tell me. I have generally thought that my uncle likes talking to a fool the best."&quo
- 97 "I do not know how much you know, my lord, and how much you do not know; and the circ.u.mstances of the little affair do not permit me to be explicit about them; but, as you have expressed your opinion so openly you must allow me to express mine, and
- 98 "But a request to a lady may be made twice.""Oh, yes. And I am grateful, knowing how far it is from your intention to do me any harm. And I am somewhat ashamed of my warmth on the other day. But still there can be but one answer. There are
- 99 "And can the countesses, and the ladys.h.i.+ps, and the d.u.c.h.esses do as they please?""Ah, madame; - I know not that.""But I know. That will do, Lotta. Now leave me." Then Madame Goesler had made up her mind; but I do not
- 100 CHAPTER LXIV.The Horns While looking for Violet Effingham, Phineas encountered Madame Goesler, among a crowd of people who were watching the adventurous embarkation of certain daring spirits in a pleasure-boat. There were watermen there in the Duke's