Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope

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Title: Doctor Thorne
Author: Anthony Trollope
Release Date: April, 2002 [EBook #3166] [Date this title first posted = January 30, 2001] [This edition 12 was posted on May 5, 2004]
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Language: English
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DR THORNE
by Anthony Trollope

CONTENTS
I THE GRESHAMS OF GRESHAMSBURY II LONG, LONG AGO III DR THORNE IV LESSONS FROM COURCY CASTLE V FRANK GRESHAM'S FIRST SPEECH VI FRANK GRESHAM'S EARLY LOVES VII THE DOCTOR'S GARDEN VIII MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTS IX SIR ROGER SCATCHERD X SIR ROGER'S WILL XI THE DOCTOR DRINKS HIS TEA XII WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK, THEN COMES THE TUG OF WAR XIII THE TWO UNCLES XIV SENTENCE OF EXILE XV COURCY XVII MISS DUNSTABLE XVIII THE RIVALS XIX THE DUKE OF OMNIUM XX THE PROPOSAL XXI MR MOFFAT FALLS INTO TROUBLE XXII SIR ROGER IS UNSEATED XXIII RETROSPECTIVE XXIV LOUIS SCATCHERD XXV SIR ROGER DIES XXVI WAR XXVII MISS THORNE GOES ON A VISIT XXVIII THE DOCTOR HEARS SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE XXIX THE DONKEY RIDE XXX POST PRANDIAL XXXI THE SMALL END OF THE WEDGE XXXII MR ORIEL XXXIII A MORNING VISIT XXXIV A BAROUCHE AND FOUR ARRIVES AT GRESHAMSBURY XXXV SIR LOUIS GOES OUT TO DINNER XXXVI WILL HE COME AGAIN? XXXVII SIR LOUIS LEAVES GRESHAMSBURY XXXVIII DE COURCY PRECEPTS AND DE COURCY PRACTICE XXXIX WHAT THE WORLD SAYS ABOUT BLOOD XL THE TWO DOCTORS CHANGE PATIENTS XLI DOCTOR THORNE WON'T INTERFERE XLII WHAT CAN YOU GIVE IN RETURN? XLIII THE RACE OF SCATCHERD BECOMES EXTINCT XLIV SATURDAY EVENING AND SUNDAY MORNING XLV LAW BUSINESS IN LONDON XLVI OUR PET FOX FINDS A TAIL XLVII HOW THE BRIDE WAS RECEIVED, AND WHO WERE ASKED TO THE WEDDING
CHAPTER I
THE GRESHAMS OF GRESHAMSBURY
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.
There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its manufacturing leviathan brethren in the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those who know it well. Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and--let us add--dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen. It is purely agricultural; agricultural in its produce, agricultural in its poor, and agricultural in its pleasures. There are towns in it, of course; depots from whence are brought seeds and groceries, ribbons and fire-shovels; in which markets are held and county balls are carried on; which return members to Parliament, generally--in spite of Reform Bills, past, present, and coming--in accordance with the dictates of some neighbouring land magnate; from whence emanate the country postmen, and where is located the supply of post-horses necessary for county visitings. But these towns add nothing to the importance of the county; dull, all but death-like single streets. Each possesses two pumps, three hotels, ten shops, fifteen beer-houses, a beadle, and a market-place.
Indeed, the town population of the county reckons for nothing when the importance of the county is discussed, with the exception, as before said, of the assize town, which is also a cathedral city. Herein a clerical aristocracy, which is certainly not without its due weight. A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy.