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The Prime Minister

by Anthony Trollope

Pages
about 1020
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
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19 h at 250 wpm
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XLI. The Value of a Thick Skin XLII. Retribution XLIII. Kauri Gum XLIV. Mr. Wharton Intends to Make a New Will XLV. Mrs. Sexty Parker XLVI. "He Wants to Get Rich Too Quick" XLVII. As for Love! XLVIII. "Has He Ill-treated You?" XLIX. "Where Is Guatemala?" L. Mr. Slide's Revenge LI. Coddling the Prime Minister LII. "I Can Sleep Here To-night, I Suppose?" LIII. Mr. Hartlepod LIV. Lizzie LV. Mrs. Parker's Sorrows LVI. What the Duchess Thought of Her Husband LVII. The Explanation LVIII. "Quite Settled" LIX. "The First and the Last" LX. The Tenway Junction LXI. The Widow and Her Friends LXII. Phineas Finn Has a Book to Read LXIII. The Duchess and Her Friend LXIV. The New K.G. LXV. "There Must Be Time" LXVI. The End of the Session LXVII. Mrs. Lopez Prepares to Move LXVIII. The Prime Minister's Political Creed LXIX. Mrs. Parker's Fate LXX. At Wharton LXXI. The Ladies at Longbarns Doubt LXXII. "He Thinks That Our Days Are Numbered" LXXIII. Only the Duke of Omnium LXXIV. "I Am Disgraced and Shamed" LXXV. The Great Wharton Alliance LXXVI. Who Will It Be? LXXVII. The Duchess in Manchester Square LXXVIII. The New Ministry LXXIX. The Wharton Wedding LXXX. The Last Meeting at Matching

It is certainly 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 in their time. No doubt we all entertain great respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chancellor or Archbishop of Canterbury we do, theoretically and abstractedly, feel a higher reverence for such self-made magnate than for one who has been as it were born into forensic or ecclesiastical purple.

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