The American Senator

The American Senator

By Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. I: Dillsborough
4. II: The Morton Family
5. III: The Masters Family
6. IV: The Dillsborough Club
7. V: Reginald Morton
8. VI: Not in Love
9. VII: The Walk Home
10. VIII: The Paragon’s Party at Bragton
11. IX: The Old Kennels
12. X: Goarly’s Revenge
13. XI: From Impington Gorse
14. XII: Arabella Trefoil
15. XIII: At Bragton
16. XIV: The Dillsborough Feud
17. XV: A Fit Companion—For Me and My Sisters
18. XVI: Mr. Gotobed’s Philanthropy
19. XVII: Lord Rufford’s Invitation
20. XVIII: The Attorney’s Family Is Disturbed
21. XIX: “Who Valued the Geese?”
22. XX: There Are Convenances
23. XXI: The First Evening at Rufford Hall
24. XXII: Jemima
25. XXIII: Poor Caneback
26. XXIV: The Ball
27. XXV: The Last Morning at Rufford Hall
28. XXVI: Give Me Six Months
29. XXVII: “Wonderful Bird!”
30. XXVIII: Mounser Green
31. XXIX: The Senator’s Letter
32. XXX: At Cheltenham
33. XXXI: The Rufford Correspondence
34. XXXII: “It Is a Long Way”
35. XXXIII: The Beginning of Persecution
36. XXXIV: Mary’s Letter
37. XXXV: Chowton Farm for Sale
38. XXXVI: Mistletoe
39. XXXVII: How Things Were Arranged
40. XXXVIII: “You Are So Severe”
41. XXXIX: The Day at Peltry
42. XL: Lord Rufford Wants to See a Horse
43. XLI: The Senator Is Badly Treated
44. XLII: Mr. Mainwaring’s Little Dinner
45. XLIII: Persecution
46. XLIV: “Particularly Proud of You”
47. XLV: Lord Rufford Makes Up His Mind
48. XLVI: It Cannot Be Arranged
49. XLVII: “But There Is Some One”
50. XLVIII: The Dinner at the Bush
51. XLIX: Miss Trefoil’s Decision
52. L: “In These Days One Can’t Make a Man Marry”
53. LI: The Senator’s Second Letter
54. LII: Providence Interferes
55. LIII: Lady Ushant at Bragton
56. LIV: Arabella Again at Bragton
57. LV: “I Have Told Him Everything”
58. LVI: “Now What Have You Got to Say?”
59. LVII: Mrs. Morton Returns
60. LVIII: The Two Old Ladies
61. LIX: The Last Effort
62. LX: Again at Mistletoe
63. LXI: The Success of Lady Augustus
64. LXII: “We Shall Kill Each Other”
65. LXIII: Changes at Bragton
66. LXIV: The Will
67. LXV: The New Minister
68. LXVI: “I Must Go”
69. LXVII: In the Park
70. LXVIII: Lord Rufford’s Model Farm
71. LXIX: Scrobby’s Trial
72. LXX: At Last
73. LXXI: “My Own, Own Husband”
74. LXXII: “Bid Him Be a Man”
75. LXXIII: “Is It Tanti?”
76. LXXIV: Benedict
77. LXXV: Arabella’s Success
78. LXXVI: The Wedding
79. LXXVII: The Senator’s Lecture.—No. I
80. LXXVIII: The Senator’s Lecture.—No. II
81. LXXIX: The Last Days of Mary Masters
82. LXXX: Conclusion
83. Colophon
84. Uncopyright

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I

Dillsborough

I never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by newcomers. That a man with a family should cling to a house in which he has once established himself is intelligible. The butcher who supplied Dillsborough, or the baker, or the ironmonger, though he might not drive what is called a roaring trade, nevertheless found himself probably able to live, and might well hesitate before he would encounter the dangers of a more energetic locality. But how it came to pass that he first got himself to Dillsborough, or his father, or his grandfather before him, has always been a mystery to me. The town has no attractions, and never had any. It does not stand on a bed of coal and has no connection with iron. It has no water peculiarly adapted for beer, or for dyeing, or for the cure of maladies. It is not surrounded by beauty of scenery strong enough to bring tourists and holiday travellers. There is no cathedral there to form, with its bishops, prebendaries, and minor canons, the nucleus of a clerical circle. It manufactures nothing specially. It has no great horse fair, or cattle fair, or even pig market of special notoriety. Every Saturday farmers and graziers and buyers of corn and sheep do congregate in a sleepy fashion about the streets, but Dillsborough has no character of its own, even as a market town. Its chief glory is its parish church, which is ancient and inconvenient, having not as yet received any of those modern improvements which have of late become common throughout England; but its parish church, though remarkable, is hardly celebrated. The town consists chiefly of one street which is over a mile long, with a square or marketplace in the middle, round which a few lanes with queer old names are congregated,