The Widow Barnaby
by Frances Milton Trollope
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About this eBook
- Author
- Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863
- Title
- The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (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.
- 36563
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36563
- Release Date
- June 30, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WIDOW BARNABY.
- 2.BY FRANCES TROLLOPE, — AUTHOR OF "THE VICAR OF WREXHILL," "A ROMANCE OF VIENNA," ETC. — IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. — LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. — 1839. — LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE WIDOW BARNABY.
- 5.CHAPTER I. — MRS. BARNABY LOSES HER SENSES, AND RECOVERS THEM.—SHE TAKES A DESPERATE RESOLUTION.—MISS MORRISON PROVES HERSELF A FRIEND IN NEED.—AGNES FINDS CONSOLATION IN SORROW.
- 6.CHAPTER II. — MRS. BARNABY EFFECTS HER RETREAT FROM CHELTENHAM.—SHE CARRIES WITH HER A LETTER.—ITS EFFECT.—AN AMIABLE ATTORNEY.—SPECIMENS OF A NOBLE STYLE OF LETTER-WRITING.—CONSOLATION.
- 7.CHAPTER III. — A BOLD MEASURE.—A TOUR DE FORCE ON THE PART OF MRS. BARNABY, AND OF SAVOIR FAIRE ON THAT OF LORD MUCKLEBURY.—SIGHT-SEEING.—THE WIDOW RESOLVES UPON ANOTHER JOURNEY.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. — AN ADVENTURE.—ANOTHER LETTER FROM MISS MORRISON PRODUCTIVE OF A POWERFUL EFFECT UPON HER BROTHER.—HE FORSAKES HIS CLIENT AND HIS FRIEND.—AGNES IS LEFT ALONE, AND EMPLOYS SOME OF HER LEISURE IN WRITING A LETTER TO MISS COMPTON.
- 9.CHAPTER V. — AGNES RECEIVES AN UNEXPECTED VISITER, AND AN IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION.—SHE ALSO RECEIVES A LETTER FROM CHELTENHAM, AND FROM HER AUNT BARNABY.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. — AGNES RECEIVES ANOTHER UNEXPECTED VISIT.—MRS. BARNABY RETURNS TO HER LODGINGS AND CATCHES THE VISITER THERE.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. — AGNES ELOPES WITH HER AUNT BETSY.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. — AGNES APPEARS LIKELY TO PROFIT BY THE CHANGE OF AUNTS.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. — BRINGS US BACK, AS IT OUGHT, TO MRS. BARNABY.
- 14.CHAPTER X. — GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF COLONEL HUBERT'S RETURN TO CHELTENHAM.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. — AGNES APPEARS AT CLIFTON IN A NEW CHARACTER.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. — A PARTY.—A MEETING.—GOOD SOMETIMES PRODUCTIVE OF EVIL.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. — DEMONSTRATING THE HEAVY SORROW WHICH MAY BE PRODUCED BY A YOUNG LADY'S HAVING A LARGER FORTUNE THAN HER LOVER EXPECTED.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. — RETURNS TO MRS. BARNABY, AND RELATES SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE SCENES OF HER LIFE, TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL CIRCUMSTANCES RELATIVE TO ONE DEARER TO HER THAN HERSELF.
- 19.CHAPTER XV. — AGNES GROWS MISERABLE.—AN EXPLANATORY CONVERSATION WITH COLONEL HUBERT LEAVES HER MORE IN THE DARK THAN EVER.—A LETTER ARRIVES FROM FREDERIC STEPHENSON.
- 20.CHAPTER XVI. — A DISCOVERY SCENE—PRODUCTIVE OF MANY NEW RELATIONS, AND VARIOUS OTHER CONSEQUENCES.
- 21.CHAPTER XVII. — GREAT CONTENTMENT.
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — A RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSION. — THE END.
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