The Duke’s Children

The Duke’s Children

By Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. I: When the Duchess Was Dead
4. II: Lady Mary Palliser
5. III: Francis Oliphant Tregear
6. IV: Park Lane
7. V: “It Is Impossible”
8. VI: Major Tifto
9. VII: Conservative Convictions
10. VIII: “He Is a Gentleman”
11. IX: “In Medias Res”
12. X: “Why Not Like Romeo if I Feel Like Romeo?”
13. XI: “Cruel”
14. XII: At Richmond
15. XIII: The Duke’s Injustice
16. XIV: The New Member for Silverbridge
17. XV: The Duke Receives a Letter—and Writes One
18. XVI: “Poor Boy”
19. XVII: The Derby
20. XVIII: One of the Results of the Derby
21. XIX: “No; My Lord, I Do Not”
22. XX: “Then He Will Come Again”
23. XXI: Sir Timothy Beeswax
24. XXII: The Duke in His Study
25. XXIII: Frank Tregear Wants a Friend
26. XXIV: “She Must Be Made to Obey”
27. XXV: A Family Breakfast-Table
28. XXVI: Dinner at the Beargarden
29. XXVII: Major Tifto and the Duke
30. XXVIII: Mrs. Montacute Jones’s Garden-Party
31. XXIX: The Lovers Meet
32. XXX: What Came of the Meeting
33. XXXI: Miss Boncassen’s River-Party. No. 1
34. XXXII: Miss Boncassen’s River-Party. No. 2
35. XXXIII: The Langham Hotel
36. XXXIV: Lord Popplecourt
37. XXXV: “Don’t You Think—?”
38. XXXVI: Tallyho Lodge
39. XXXVII: Grex
40. XXXVIII: Crummie-Toddie
41. XXXIX: Killancodlem
42. XL: “And Then!”
43. XLI: Ischl
44. XLII: Again at Killancodlem
45. XLIII: What Happened at Doncaster
46. XLIV: How It Was Done
47. XLV: “There Shall Not Be Another Word About It”
48. XLVI: Lady Mary’s Dream
49. XLVII: Miss Boncassen’s Idea of Heaven
50. XLVIII: The Party at Custins Is Broken Up
51. XLIX: The Major’s Fate
52. L: The Duke’s Arguments
53. LI: The Duke’s Guests
54. LII: Miss Boncassen Tells the Truth
55. LIII: “Then I Am as Proud as a Queen”
56. LIV: “I Don’t Think She Is a Snake”
57. LV: Polpenno
58. LVI: The News Is Sent to Matching
59. LVII: The Meeting at The Bobtailed Fox
60. LVIII: The Major Is Deposed
61. LIX: No One Can Tell What May Come to Pass
62. LX: Lord Gerald in Further Trouble
63. LXI: “Bone of My Bone”
64. LXII: The Brake Country
65. LXIII: “I’ve Seen ’Em Like That Before”
66. LXIV: “I Believe Him to Be a Worthy Young Man”
67. LXV: “Do You Ever Think What Money Is?”
68. LXVI: The Three Attacks
69. LXVII: “He Is Such a Beast”
70. LXVIII: Brook Street
71. LXIX: “Pert Poppet!”
72. LXX: “Love May Be a Great Misfortune”
73. LXXI: “What Am I to Say, Sir?”
74. LXXII: Carlton Terrace
75. LXXIII: “I Have Never Loved You”
76. LXXIV: “Let Us Drink a Glass of Wine Together”
77. LXXV: The Major’s Story
78. LXXVI: On Deportment
79. LXXVII: “Mabel, Goodbye”
80. LXXVIII: The Duke Returns to Office
81. LXXIX: The First Wedding
82. LXXX: The Second Wedding
83. Colophon
84. Uncopyright

Imprint

This ebook is the product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard Ebooks, and builds on the hard work of other literature lovers made possible by the public domain.

This particular ebook is based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and on digital scans from the Internet Archive.

The source text and artwork in this ebook are believed to be in the United States public domain; that is, they are believed to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. They may still be copyrighted in other countries, so users located outside of the United States must check their local laws before using this ebook. The creators of, and contributors to, this ebook dedicate their contributions to the worldwide public domain via the terms in the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. For full license information, see the Uncopyright at the end of this ebook.

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces ebook editions of public domain literature using modern typography, technology, and editorial standards, and distributes them free of cost. You can download this and other ebooks carefully produced for true book lovers at standardebooks.org.

I

When the Duchess Was Dead

No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend, the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, taking with them their three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, had been at Oxford, but had had his career there cut short by some more than ordinary youthful folly, which had induced his father to agree with the college authorities that his name had better be taken off the college books⁠—all which had been cause of very great sorrow to the Duke. The other boy was to go to Cambridge; but his father had thought it well to give him a twelvemonth’s run on the Continent, under his own inspection. Lady Mary, the only daughter, was the youngest of the family, and she also had been with them on the Continent. They remained the full year abroad, travelling with a large accompaniment of tutors, lady’s-maids, couriers, and sometimes friends. I do not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, and had perhaps perfected their French. The Duke had gone to work at his travels with a full determination to create for himself occupation out of a new kind of life. He had studied Dante, and had striven to arouse himself to ecstatic joy amidst the loveliness of the Italian lakes. But through it all he had been aware