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THE PRIME MINISTER
by Anthony Trollope

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME I
1 Ferdinand Lopez 2 Everett Wharton 3 Mr Abel Wharton QC 4 Mrs
Roby 5 'No one knows anything about him.' 6 An Old Friend Goes to
Windsor 7 Another Old Friend 8 The Beginning of a New Career 9 Mrs
Dicks' Dinner Party - No 1 10 Mrs Dicks' Dinner Party - No 2 11
Carlton Terrace 12 The Gathering of Clouds 13 Mr Wharton
Complains 14 A Lover's Perseverance 15 Arthur Fletcher 16 Never
Run Away! 17 Good-bye 18 The Duke of Omnium Thinks of Himself
19 Vulgarity 20 Sir Orlando's Policy
VOLUME II
21 The Duchess's New Swan 22 St James's Park 23 Surrender 24 The
Marriage 25 The Beginning of the Honeymoon 26 The End of the
Honeymoon 27 The Duke's Misery 28 The Duchess is Much Troubled
29 The Two Candidates for Silverbridge 30 'Yes;--a lie!' 31 'Yes;--with
a horsewhip in my hand' 32 'What business is it of yours?' 33 Showing
that a Man Should not Howl 34 The Silverbridge Election 35 Lopez
Back in London 36 The Jolly Blackbird 37 The Horns 38 Sir Orlando
Retires 39 'Get round him' 40 'Come and try it'
VOLUME III
41 The Value of a Thick Skin 42 Retribution 43 Kauri Gum 44 Mr
Wharton Thinks of a New Will 45 Mrs Sexty Parker 46 'He wants to
get rich too quick' 47 As for Love! 48 'Has he ill-treated you?' 49
Where is Guatemala? 50 Mr Slide's Revenge 51 Coddling the Prime
Minister 52 'I can sleep here tonight, I suppose?' 53 Mr Hartlepool 54
Lizzie 55 Mrs Parker's Sorrows 56 What the Duchess Thought of Her
Husband 57 The Explanation 58 'Quite settled' 59 The First and the
Last 60 The Tenway Junction
VOLUME III
61 The Widow and her Friends 62 Phineas Finn Has a Book to Read 63
The Duchess and her Friend 64 The New K.G. 65 There Must Be Time

66 The End of the Session 67 Mrs Lopez Prepares to Move 68 The
Prime Minister's Political Creed 69 Mrs Parker's Fate 70 At Wharton
71 The Ladies at Longbarns Doubt 72 'He thinks that our days are
numbered' 73 Only the Duke of Omnium 74 'I am disgraced and
shamed' 75 The Great Wharton Alliance 76 Who Will it Be? 77 The
Duchess in Manchester Square 78 The New Ministry 79 The Wharton
Wedding 80 The Last Meeting at Matching

The Prime Minister

VOLUME I

CHAPTER 1
FERDINAND LOPEZ.
It is a certainty of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers
and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in
the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of
them as of persons who were themselves somebodies