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Anthony Trollope. Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories
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WHY FRAU FROHMANN RAISED. HER PRICES
CHAPTER I. THE BRUNNENTHAL PEACOCK
CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLES
CHAPTER III. THE QUESTION OF THE MITGIFT
CHAPTER IV. THE FRAU RETURNS TO THE SIMPLICITY OF THE OLD DAYS
CHAPTER V. A ZWANSIGER IS A ZWANSIGER
CHAPTER VI. HOFF THE BUTCHER
CHAPTER VII. AND GOLD BECOMES CHEAP
CHAPTER VIII. IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO ANY OF THEM
THE LADY OF LAUNAY
CHAPTER I. HOW BESSY PRYOR BECAME A YOUNG LADY OF IMPORTANCE
CHAPTER II. HOW BESSY PRYOR WOULDN’T MARRY THE PARSON
CHAPTER III. HOW BESSY PRYOR CAME TO LOVE THE HEIR OF LAUNAY
CHAPTER IV. HOW BESSY PRYOR OWNED THAT SHE WAS ENGAGED
CHAPTER V. HOW BESSY PRYOR CEASED TO BE A YOUNG LADY OF IMPORTANCE
CHAPTER VI. HOW BESSY PRYOR WAS TO BE BANISHED
CHAPTER VII. HOW BESSY PRYOR WAS BANISHED TO NORMANDY
CHAPTER VIII. HOW BESSY PRYOR RECEIVED TWO LETTERS FROM LAUNAY
CHAPTER IX. HOW BESSY PRYOR ANSWERED THE TWO LETTERS, AND WHAT CAME OF IT
CHAPTER X. HOW BESSY PRYOR’S LOVER ARGUED HIS CASE
CHAPTER XI. HOW BESSY PRYOR RECEIVED HER LOVER
CHAPTER XII. HOW BESSY PRYOR WAS BROUGHT BACK, AND WHAT THEN, BECAME OF HER
CHRISTMAS AT THOMPSON HALL
CHAPTER I. MRS. BROWN’S SUCCESS
CHAPTER II. MRS. BROWN’S FAILURE
CHAPTER III. MRS. BROWN ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE
CHAPTER IV. MRS. BROWN DOES ESCAPE
CHAPTER V. MRS. BROWN AT THOMPSON HALL
THE TELEGRAPH GIRL
CHAPTER I. LUCY GRAHAM AND SOPHY WILSON
CHAPTER II. ABRAHAM HALL
CHAPTER III. SOPHY WILSON GOES TO HASTINGS
CHAPTER IV. MR. BROWN THE HAIRDRESSER
CHAPTER V. ABRAHAM HALL MARRIED
ALICE DUGDALE
CHAPTER I. THE DOCTOR’S FAMILY
CHAPTER II. MAJOR ROSSITER
CHAPTER III. LADY WANLESS
CHAPTER IV. THE BEETHAMITES
CHAPTER V. THE INVITATION
CHAPTER VI. THE ARCHERY MEETING
CHAPTER VII. AFTER THE PARTY
CHAPTER VIII. SIR WALTER UP IN LONDON
CHAPTER IX. LADY DEEPBELL
CHAPTER X. THE BIRD THAT PECKED AT THE WINDOW
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Anthony Trollope
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Malchen of course could give no advice. Every step which her mother took seemed to her to be unwise. Of course the old women would do the best they could with their eggs. The idea that any one out of gratitude should sell cheaper to a friend than to an enemy was to her monstrous. But when she found that her mother was determined to swim against the stream, to wound herself by kicking against the pricks, to set at defiance all the common laws of trade, and that in this way money was to be lost, just at that very epoch of her own life in which it was so necessary that money should be forthcoming for her own advantage—then she became moody, unhappy, and silent. What a pity it was that all this power should be vested in her mother’s hands.
As for Peter, he had been altogether converted. When he found that a cart had to be sent twice a week to Brixen, and that the very poultry which had been carried from the valley to the town had to be brought back from the town to the valley, then his spirit of conservatism deserted him. He went so far as to advise his mother to give way. “I don’t see that you do any good by ruining yourself,” he said.
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