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Framley Parsonage
by Anthony Trollope

TABLE OF CONTENTS
I 'OMNES OMNIA BONA DICERE' II THE FRAMLEY SET, AND THE CHALDICOTE SET III CHALDICOTES IV A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE V AMANTIUM IRAE AMORES INTEGRATIO VI MR HAROLD SMITH'S LECTURE VII SUNDAY MORNING VIII GATHERUM CASTLE IX THE VICAR'S RETURN X LUCY ROBARTS XI GRISELDA GRANTLY XII THE LITTLE BILL XIII DELICATE HINTS XIV MR CRAWLEY OF HOGGLESTOCK XV LADY LUFTON'S AMBASSADOR XVI MRS PODGERS' BABY XVII MRS PROUDIE'S CONVERSATSIONE XVIII THE NEW MINISTER'S PATRONAGE XIX MONEY DEALING XX HAROLD SMITH IN CABINET XXI WHY PUCK THE PONY WAS BEATEN XXII HOGGLESTOCK PARSONAGE XXIII THE TRIUMPH OF THE GIANTS XXIV MAGNA EST VERITAS XXV NON-IMPULSIVE XXVI IMPULSIVE XXVII SOUTH AUDLEY STREET XXVIII DR THORNE XXIX MISS DUNSTABLE AT HOME XXX THE GRANTLY TRIUMPH XXX1 SALMON FISHING IN NORWAY XXXII THE GOAT AND THE COMPASSES XXXIII CONSOLATION XXXIV LADY LUFTON IS TAKEN BY SURPRISE XXXV THE STORY OF KING COPHETUA XXXVI KIDNAPPING AT HOGGLESTOCK XXXVII MR SOWERBY WITHOUT COMPANY XXXVIII IS THERE CAUSE OR JUST IMPEDIMENT? XXXIX HOW TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER XL INTERNECINE XLI DON QUIXOTE XLII TOUCHING PITCH XLIII IS SHE NOT INSIGNIFICANT? XLIV THE PHILISTINES AT THE PARSONAGE XLV PALACE BLESSINGS XLVI LADY LUFTON'S REQUEST XLVII NEMESIS XLVIII HOW THEY WERE ALL MARRIED, HAD TWO CHILDREN, AND LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
CHAPTER I
'OMNES OMNIA BONA DICERE'
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the first page or two of this narrative must be consumed in giving a catalogue of the good things which chance and conduct together had heaped upon this young man's head.
His first step forward in life had arisen from his having been sent, while still very young, as a private pupil to the house of a clergyman, who was an old friend and intimate friend of his father's. This clergyman had one other, and only one other, pupil--the young Lord Lufton; and between the two boys, there had sprung up a close alliance. While they were both so placed, Lady Lufton had visited her son, and then invited young Robarts to pass his next holidays at Framley Court. This visit was made; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had