The Vicar of Bullhampton

The Vicar of Bullhampton

By Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. Preface
4. The Vicar of Bullhampton
   1. I: Bullhampton
   2. II: Flo’s Red Ball
   3. III: Sam Brattle
   4. IV: There Is No One Else
   5. V: The Miller
   6. VI: Brattle’s Mill
   7. VII: The Miller’s Wife
   8. VIII: The Last Day
   9. IX: Miss Marrable
   10. X: Crunch’em Can’t Be Had
   11. XI: Don’t You Be Afeard About Me
   12. XII: Bone’m and His Master
   13. XIII: Captain Marrable and His Father
   14. XIV: Cousinhood
   15. XV: The Police at Fault
   16. XVI: Miss Lowther Asks for Advice
   17. XVII: The Marquis of Trowbridge
   18. XVIII: Blank Paper
   19. XIX: Sam Brattle Returns Home
   20. XX: I Have a Jupiter of My Own Now
   21. XXI: What Parson John Thinks About It
   22. XXII: What the Fenwicks Thought About It
   23. XXIII: What Mr. Gilmore Thought About It
   24. XXIV: The Rev. Henry Fitzackerley Chamberlaine
   25. XXV: Carry Brattle
   26. XXVI: The Turnover Correspondence
   27. XXVII: “I Never Shamed None of Them.”
   28. XXVIII: Mrs. Brattle’s Journey
   29. XXIX: The Bull at Loring
   30. XXX: The Aunt and the Uncle
   31. XXXI: Mary Lowther Feels Her Way
   32. XXXII: Mr. Gilmore’s Success
   33. XXXIII: Farewell
   34. XXXIV: Bullhampton News
   35. XXXV: Mr. Puddleham’s New Chapel
   36. XXXVI: Sam Brattle Goes Off Again
   37. XXXVII: Female Martyrdom
   38. XXXVIII: A Lover’s Madness
   39. XXXIX: The Three Honest Men
   40. XL: Trotter’s Buildings
   41. XLI: Startup Farm
   42. XLII: Mr. Quickenham, Q.C.
   43. XLIII: Easter at Turnover Castle
   44. XLIV: The Marrables of Dunripple
   45. XLV: What Shall I Do with Myself?
   46. XLVI: Mr. Jay of Warminster
   47. XLVII: Sam Brattle Is Wanted
   48. XLVIII: Mary Lowther Returns to Bullhampton
   49. XLIX: Mary Lowther’s Doom
   50. L: Mary Lowther Inspects Her Future Home
   51. LI: The Grinder and His Comrade
   52. LII: Carry Brattle’s Journey
   53. LIII: The Fatted Calf
   54. LIV: Mr. Gilmore’s Rubies
   55. LV: Glebe Land
   56. LVI: The Vicar’s Vengeance
   57. LVII: Oil Is to Be Thrown Upon the Waters
   58. LVIII: Edith Brownlow’s Dream
   59. LIX: News from Dunripple
   60. LX: Lord St. George Is Very Cunning
   61. LXI: Mary Lowther’s Treachery
   62. LXII: Up at the Privets
   63. LXIII: The Miller Tells His Troubles
   64. LXIV: If I Were Your Sister!
   65. LXV: Mary Lowther Leaves Bullhampton
   66. LXVI: At the Mill
   67. LXVII: Sir Gregory Marrable Has a Headache
   68. LXVIII: The Squire Is Very Obstinate
   69. LXIX: The Trial
   70. LXX: The Fate of the Puddlehamites
   71. LXXI: The End of Mary Lowther’s Story
   72. LXXII: At Turnover Castle
   73. LXXIII: Conclusion
5. Colophon
6. Uncopyright

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Preface

The writing of prefaces is, for the most part, work thrown away; and the writing of a preface to a novel is almost always a vain thing. Nevertheless, I am tempted to prefix a few words to this novel on its completion, not expecting that many people will read them, but desirous, in doing so, of defending myself against a charge which may possibly be made against me by the critics⁠—as to which I shall be unwilling to revert after it shall have been preferred.

I have introduced in The Vicar of Bullhampton the character of a girl whom I will call⁠—for want of a truer word that shall not in its truth be offensive⁠—a castaway. I have endeavoured to endow her with qualities that may create sympathy, and I have brought her back at last from degradation at least to decency. I have not married her to a wealthy lover, and I have endeavoured to explain that though there was possible to her a way out of perdition, still things could not be with her as they would have been had she not fallen.

There arises, of course, the question whether a novelist, who professes to write for the amusement of the young of both sexes, should allow himself to bring upon his stage such a character as that of Carry Brattle? It is not long since⁠—it is well within the memory of the author⁠—that the very existence of such a condition of life, as was hers, was supposed to be unknown to our sisters and daughters, and was, in truth, unknown to many of them. Whether that ignorance was good may be questioned; but that it exists no longer is beyond question. Then arises that further question⁠—how far the condition of such unfortunates should be made a matter of concern to the sweet young hearts of those whose delicacy and cleanliness of thought is a matter of pride to so many of us. Cannot women, who are good, pity