The Widow Barnaby

About this eBook

Author

Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863

Title

The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 2 (of 3)

Credits

Produced by Delphine Lettau, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Social classes -- England -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36562

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36562

Release Date

June 30, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WIDOW BARNABY.
2. 2.BY FRANCES TROLLOPE, — AUTHOR OF "THE VICAR OF WREXHILL," "A ROMANCE OF VIENNA," ETC. — IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. — LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. — 1839. — LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.THE WIDOW BARNABY.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING A YOUNG LADY'S APPEARANCE AT A BALL.—A WET SUNDAY.—DIFFERENCE OF TASTE.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — THE BALL.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — MELANCHOLY MEDITATIONS.—AN EVENTFUL WALK.—A PLEASANT BREAKFAST.—A COMFORTABLE CONVERSATION IN A CLOSET.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — A TETE-A-TETE IN A DRAWING-ROOM.—AUTOBIOGRAPHY.—A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY CONCERNING THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — A YOUNG LADY'S PLOT.—A CONSULTATION, AND THE HAPPY RESULT OF IT.—A TERRIBLE INTERRUPTION, AND A DANGEROUS EXPEDITION.—CONFIDENTIAL INTERCOURSE.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — THE READER IS LET INTO A SECRET, AND THE YOUNG LADY'S PLOT PROVED TO BE OF NO AVAIL.—A JUDICIOUS MODE OF OBTAINING INFORMATION.—A HAPPY AND VERY WELL-TIMED MEETING.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — TRANSIENT HAPPINESS.—AN ACCIDENT, LEADING TO THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN TALENT IN MISS WILLOUGHBY, AND UNEXPECTED APPRECIATION OF IT IN COLONEL HUBERT.—SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE PECULIARITIES OF THE FEMALE MIND.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — SOME FARTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE STATE OF MRS. BARNABY'S HEART.—TENDER DOUBTS AND FEARS, ON THE PART OF THE MAJOR, ALL SET TO REST BY THE GENTLE KINDNESS OF THE WIDOW.—SOME ACCOUNT OF MRS. PETERS'S CONCERT, AND OF THE TERRIBLE EVENTS WHICH FOLLOWED IT.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — MAJOR ALLEN PAYS A VISIT AT BATH PRODUCTIVE OF IMPORTANT RESULTS.—SYMPATHY BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE WIDOW BARNABY.—EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY.—VALEDICTORY COMPLIMENTS.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. — A DISAGREEABLE BREAKFAST-TABLE.—MR. STEPHENSON GIVES HIS FRIEND COLONEL HUBERT WARNING TO DEPART.—A PROPOSAL, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — MRS. BARNABY FEELS CONSCIOUS OF IMPROVEMENT, AND REJOICES AT IT.—HOPES FOR THE FUTURE.—A CONVERSATION IN WHICH MUCH GENEROUS SINCERITY IS DISPLAYED.—A LETTER INTENDED TO BE EXPLANATORY, BUT FAILING TO BE SO.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — A LUCKY ESCAPE.—A MELANCHOLY PARTING.—MRS. BARNABY SETTLES HERSELF AT CHELTENHAM.—HER FIRST SORTIE.—BOARDING-HOUSE BREAKFAST.—A NEW ACQUAINTANCE.—A MEDICAL CONVERSATION. — MRS. BARNABY, The —— Hotel and Boarding House. No. 5. — MISS MORRISON, The —— Hotel and Boarding House.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. — THE ACQUAINTANCE RIPENS INTO FRIENDSHIP.—USEFUL INFORMATION OF ALL SORTS.—AN EXCELLENT METHOD OF TALKING FRENCH, ATTENDED WITH LITTLE LABOUR AND CERTAIN SUCCESS.—A COLLECTOR.—A SALE-ROOM.—A PEER OF THE REALM.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. — A CHELTENHAM BALL.—AN INTRODUCTION.—A CONQUEST.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. — NEW HOPES BEGET A NEW STYLE OF EXISTENCE—A PARTY.—AGNES HAS SOME SUCCESS, WHICH MRS. BARNABY DOES NOT QUITE APPROVE.—LORD MUCKLEBURY ENTERS INTO EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE WIDOW, BY WHICH HER HOPES ARE RAISED TO THE HIGHEST PITCH.—BUT LORD MUCKLEBURY LEAVES CHELTENHAM. — END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

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