Orley Farm

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Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope

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Title: Orley Farm
Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: October 13, 2007 [eBook #23000]
Language: English
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ORLEY FARM
by
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
First published in serial form March, 1861, through October, 1862, and in book form in 1862, both by Chapman and Hall.

CONTENTS
VOLUME I
I. THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE GREAT ORLEY FARM CASE II. LADY MASON AND HER SON III. THE CLEEVE IV. THE PERILS OF YOUTH V. SIR PEREGRINE MAKES A SECOND PROMISE VI. THE COMMERCIAL ROOM, BULL INN, LEEDS VII. THE MASONS OF GROBY PARK VIII. MRS. MASON'S HOT LUNCHEON IX. A CONVIVIAL MEETING X. MR., MRS., AND MISS FURNIVAL XI. MRS. FURNIVAL AT HOME XII. MR. FURNIVAL'S CHAMBERS XIII. GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY XIV. DINNER AT THE CLEEVE XV. A MORNING CALL AT MOUNT PLEASANT VILLA XVI. MR. DOCKWRATH IN BEDFORD ROW XVII. VON BAUHR XVIII. THE ENGLISH VON BAUHR XIX. THE STAVELEY FAMILY XX. MR. DOCKWRATH IN HIS OWN OFFICE XXI. CHRISTMAS IN HARLEY STREET XXII. CHRISTMAS AT NONINGSBY XXIII. CHRISTMAS AT GROBY PARK XXIV. CHRISTMAS IN GREAT ST. HELENS XXV. MR. FURNIVAL AGAIN AT HIS CHAMBERS XXVI. WHY SHOULD I NOT? XXVII. COMMERCE XXVIII. MONKTON GRANGE XXIX. BREAKING COVERT XXX. ANOTHER FALL XXXI. FOOTSTEPS IN THE CORRIDOR XXXII. WHAT BRIDGET BOLSTER HAD TO SAY XXXIII. THE ANGEL OF LIGHT XXXIV. MR. FURNIVAL LOOKS FOR ASSISTANCE XXXV. LOVE WAS STILL THE LORD OF ALL XXXVI. WHAT THE YOUNG MEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT XXXVII. PEREGRINE'S ELOQUENCE XXXVIII. OH, INDEED! XXXIX. WHY SHOULD HE GO? XL. I CALL IT AWFUL
VOLUME II
XLI. HOW CAN I SAVE HIM? XLII. JOHN KENNEBY GOES TO HAMWORTH XLIII. JOHN KENNEBY'S COURTSHIP XLIV. SHOWING HOW LADY MASON COULD BE VERY NOBLE XLV. SHOWING HOW MRS. ORME COULD BE VERY WEAK MINDED XLVI. A WOMAN'S IDEA OF FRIENDSHIP XLVII. THE GEM OF THE FOUR FAMILIES XLVIII. THE ANGEL OF LIGHT UNDER A CLOUD XLIX. MRS. FURNIVAL CAN'T PUT UP WITH IT L. IT IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE LI. MRS. FURNIVAL'S JOURNEY TO HAMWORTH LII. SHOWING HOW THINGS WENT ON AT NONINGSBY LIII. LADY MASON RETURNS HOME LIV. TELLING ALL THAT HAPPENED BENEATH THE LAMP-POST LV. WHAT TOOK PLACE IN HARLEY STREET LVI. HOW SIR PEREGRINE DID BUSINESS WITH MR. ROUND LVII. THE LOVES AND HOPES OF ALBERT FITZALLEN LVIII. MISS STAVELEY DECLINES TO EAT MINCED VEAL LIX. NO SURRENDER LX. WHAT REBEKAH DID FOR HER SON LXI. THE STATE OF PUBLIC OPINION LXII. WHAT THE FOUR LAWYERS THOUGHT ABOUT IT LXIII. THE EVENING BEFORE THE TRIAL LXIV. THE FIRST JOURNEY TO ALSTON LXV. FELIX GRAHAM RETURNS TO NONINGSBY LXVI. SHOWING HOW MISS FURNIVAL TREATED HER LOVERS LXVII. MR. MOULDER BACKS HIS OPINION LXVIII. THE FIRST DAY OF THE TRIAL LXIX. THE TWO JUDGES LXX. HOW AM I TO BEAR IT? LXXI. SHOWING HOW JOHN KENNEBY AND BRIDGET BOLSTER BORE THEMSELVES IN COURT LXXII. MR. FURNIVAL'S SPEECH LXXIII. MRS. ORME TELLS THE STORY LXXIV. YOUNG LOCHINVAR LXXV. THE LAST DAY LXXVI. I LOVE HER STILL LXXVII. JOHN KENNEBY'S DOOM LXXVIII. THE LAST OF THE LAWYERS LXXIX. FAREWELL LXXX. SHOWING HOW AFFAIRS SETTLED THEMSELVES AT NONINGSBY

VOLUME I
CHAPTER I
THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE GREAT ORLEY FARM CASE
It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore,--Orley Farm.
I say so much at commencing in order that I may have an opportunity of explaining that this book of mine will not be devoted in any special way to rural delights. The name might lead to the idea that new precepts were to be given, in the pleasant guise of a novel, as to cream-cheeses, pigs with small bones, wheat sown in drills, or artificial manure. No such aspirations are mine. I make no attempts in that line, and declare at once that agriculturists will gain nothing from my present performance. Orley Farm, my readers, will be our scene during a portion of our present sojourn together, but the name has been chosen as having been intimately connected with certain legal questions which made a considerable stir in our courts of law.
It was twenty years before the date at which this story will be supposed to commence that the name of Orley Farm first became known to the wearers of the long robe. At that time had died an old gentleman, Sir