The Last Chronicle of Barset

The Last Chronicle of Barset

By Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. I: How Did He Get It?
4. II: By Heavens He Had Better Not!
5. III: The Archdeacon’s Threat
6. IV: The Clergyman’s House at Hogglestock
7. V: What the World Thought About It
8. VI: Grace Crawley
9. VII: Miss Prettyman’s Private Room
10. VIII: Mr. Crawley Is Taken to Silverbridge
11. IX: Grace Crawley Goes to Allington
12. X: Dinner at Framley Court
13. XI: The Bishop Sends His Inhibition
14. XII: Mr. Crawley Seeks for Sympathy
15. XIII: The Bishop’s Angel
16. XIV: Major Grantly Consults a Friend
17. XV: Up in London
18. XVI: Down at Allington
19. XVII: Mr. Crawley Is Summoned to Barchester
20. XVIII: The Bishop of Barchester Is Crushed
21. XIX: Where Did It Come from?
22. XX: What Mr. Walker Thought About It
23. XXI: Mr. Robarts on His Embassy
24. XXII: Major Grantly at Home
25. XXIII: Miss Lily Dale’s Resolution
26. XXIV: Mrs. Dobbs Broughton’s Dinner-Party
27. XXV: Miss Madalina Demolines
28. XXVI: The Picture
29. XXVII: A Hero at Home
30. XXVIII: Showing How Major Grantly Took a Walk
31. XXIX: Miss Lily Dale’s Logic
32. XXX: Showing What Major Grantly Did After His Walk
33. XXXI: Showing How Major Grantly Returned to Guestwick
34. XXXII: Mr. Toogood
35. XXXIII: The Plumstead Foxes
36. XXXIV: Mrs. Proudie Sends for Her Lawyer
37. XXXV: Lily Dale Writes Two Words in Her Book
38. XXXVI: Grace Crawley Returns Home
39. XXXVII: Hook Court
40. XXXVIII: Jael
41. XXXIX: A New Flirtation
42. XL: Mr. Toogood’s Ideas About Society
43. XLI: Grace Crawley at Home
44. XLII: Mr. Toogood Travels Professionally
45. XLIII: Mr. Crosbie Goes Into the City
46. XLIV: “I Suppose I Must Let You Have It.”
47. XLV: Lily Dale Goes to London
48. XLVI: The Bayswater Romance
49. XLVII: Dr. Tempest at the Palace
50. XLVIII: The Softness of Sir Raffle Buffle
51. XLIX: Near the Close
52. L: Lady Lufton’s Proposition
53. LI: Mrs. Dobbs Broughton Piles Her Fagots
54. LII: Why Don’t You Have an “It” for Yourself?
55. LIII: Rotten Row
56. LIV: The Clerical Commission
57. LV: Framley Parsonage
58. LVI: The Archdeacon Goes to Framley
59. LVII: A Double Pledge
60. LVIII: The Cross-Grainedness of Men
61. LIX: A Lady Presents Her Compliments to Miss L. D.
62. LX: The End of Jael and Sisera
63. LXI: “It’s Dogged as Does It.”
64. LXII: Mr. Crawley’s Letter to the Dean
65. LXIII: Two Visitors to Hogglestock
66. LXIV: The Tragedy in Hook Court
67. LXV: Miss Van Siever Makes Her Choice
68. LXVI: Requiescat in Pace
69. LXVII: In Memoriam
70. LXVIII: The Obstinacy of Mr. Crawley
71. LXIX: Mr. Crawley’s Last Appearance in His Own Pulpit
72. LXX: Mrs. Arabin Is Caught
73. LXXI: Mr. Toogood at Silverbridge
74. LXXII: Mr. Toogood at The Dragon of Wantly
75. LXXIII: There Is Comfort at Plumstead
76. LXXIV: The Crawleys Are Informed
77. LXXV: Madalina’s Heart Is Bleeding
78. LXXVI: I Think He Is Light of Heart
79. LXXVII: The Shattered Tree
80. LXXVIII: The Arabins Return to Barchester
81. LXXIX: Mr. Crawley Speaks of His Coat
82. LXXX: Miss Demolines Desires to Become a Finger-Post
83. LXXXI: Barchester Cloisters
84. LXXXII: The Last Scene at Hogglestock
85. LXXXIII: Mr. Crawley Is Conquered
86. LXXXIV: Conclusion
87. Endnotes
88. Colophon
89. Uncopyright

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I

How Did He Get It?

“I can never bring myself to believe it, John,” said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors’ business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium who is great in those parts, and altogether held their heads up high, as provincial lawyers often do. They⁠—the Walkers⁠—lived in a great brick house in the middle of the town, gave dinners, to which the county gentlemen not unfrequently condescended to come, and in a mild way led the fashion in Silverbridge. “I can never bring myself to believe it, John,” said Miss Walker.

“You’ll have to bring yourself to believe it,” said John, without taking his eyes from his book.

“A clergyman⁠—and such a clergyman too!”

“I don’t see that that has anything to do with it.” And as he now spoke, John did take his eyes off his book. “Why should not a clergyman turn thief as