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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