Short Fiction

Short Fiction

By Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. Relics of General Chassé
4. The O’Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo
5. The Courtship of Susan Bell
6. An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
7. The Château of Prince Polignac
8. Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica
9. John Bull on the Guadalquivir
10. La Mère Bauche
11. A Ride Across Palestine
12. Mrs. General Talboys
13. The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne
14. The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
15. The House of Heine Brothers, in Munich
16. Returning Home
17. Aaron Trow
18. The Mistletoe Bough
19. George Walker at Suez
20. The Journey to Panama
21. The Widow’s Mite
22. The Two Generals
23. Miss Ophelia Gledd
24. Malachi’s Cove
25. The Gentle Euphemia
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
    8. VIII
26. Father Giles of Ballymoy
27. Lotta Schmidt
28. The Adventures of Fred Pickering
29. The Last Austrian Who Left Venice
30. The Turkish Bath
31. Mary Gresley
32. Josephine de Montmorenci
33. The Panjandrum
    1. Part I: Hope
    2. Part II: Despair
34. The Spotted Dog
    1. Part I: The Attempt
    2. Part II: The Result
35. Mrs. Brumby
36. Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage
    1. I: What Maurice Archer Said About Christmas
    2. II: Kirkby Cliffe Church
    3. III: Showing How Isabel Lownd Told a Lie
    4. IV: Showing How Isabel Lownd Repented Her Fault
37. Christmas at Thompson Hall
    1. I: Mrs. Brown’s Success
    2. II: Mrs. Brown’s Failure
    3. III: Mrs. Brown Attempts to Escape
    4. IV: Mrs. Brown Does Escape
    5. V: Mrs. Brown at Thompson Hall
38. Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices
    1. I: The Brunnenthal Peacock
    2. II: The Beginning of Troubles
    3. III: The Question of the Mitgift
    4. IV: The Frau Returns to the Simplicity of the Old Days
    5. V: A Zwanziger Is a Zwanziger
    6. VI: Hoff the Butcher
    7. VII: And Gold Becomes Cheap
    8. VIII: It Doesn’t Make Any Difference to Any of Them
39. The Telegraph Girl
    1. I: Lucy Graham and Sophy Wilson
    2. II: Abraham Hall
    3. III: Sophy Wilson Goes to Hastings
    4. IV: Mr. Brown the Hairdresser
    5. V: Abraham Hall Married
40. The Lady of Launay
    1. I: How Bessy Pryor Became a Young Lady of Importance
    2. II: How Bessy Pryor Wouldn’t Marry the Parson
    3. III: How Bessy Pryor Came to Love the Heir of Launay
    4. IV: How Bessy Pryor Owned That She Was Engaged
    5. V: How Bessy Pryor Ceased to Be a Young Lady of Importance
    6. VI: How Bessy Pryor Was to Be Banished
    7. VII: How Bessy Pryor Was Banished to Normandy
    8. VIII: How Bessy Pryor Received Two Letters from Launay
    9. IX: How Bessy Pryor Answered the Two Letters, and What Came of It
    10. X: How Bessy Pryor’s Lover Argued His Case
    11. XI: How Bessy Pryor Received Her Lover
    12. XII: How Bessy Pryor Was Brought Back, and What Then, Became of Her
41. Alice Dugdale
    1. I: The Doctor’s Family
    2. II: Major Rossiter
    3. III: Lady Wanless
    4. IV: The Beethamites
    5. V: The Invitation
    6. VI: The Archery Meeting
    7. VII: After the Party
    8. VIII: Sir Walter Up in London
    9. IX: Lady Deepbell
    10. X: The Bird That Pecked at the Window
42. The Two Heroines of Plumplington
    1. I: The Two Girls
    2. II: “Down I Shall Go”
    3. III: Mr. Greenmantle Is Much Perplexed
    4. IV: Jack Hollycombe
    5. V: Dr. Freeborn and Philip Hughes
    6. VI: The Young Ladies Are to Be Taken Abroad
    7. VII: The Young Ladies Are to Remain at Home
    8. VIII: Christmas-Day
43. Endnotes
44. Colophon
45. Uncopyright

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Relics of General Chassé

A Tale of Antwerp

That Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces and parliament of its own, is known to all the world. And a very nice little kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselves old men, Belgium, as it is now called⁠—in those days it used to be Flanders and Brabant⁠—was a part of Holland; and it obtained its own independence by a revolution. In that revolution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Chassé, with the utmost gallantry, but nevertheless ineffectually.

After the siege Antwerp became quite a show place; and among the visitors who flocked there to talk of the gallant general, and to see what remained of the great effort which he had made to defend the place, were two