The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, in the fictional county of Barsetshire. Hiram's Hospital is an almshouse supported by a medieval charitable bequest to the Diocese of Barchester. Mr Harding was appointed to this position through the patronage of his old friend the Bishop of Barchester, who is also the father of Archdeacon Grantly to whom Harding's older daughter, Susan, is married. The warden, who lives with his remaining child, an unmarried younger daughter Eleanor, performs his duties conscientiously. The story concerns the impact upon Harding and his circle when a zealous young reformer, John Bold, launches a campaign to expose the disparity in the apportionment of the charity's income between its object, the bedesmen, and its officer, Mr Harding.
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Anthony Trollope. The Warden
The Warden
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. HIRAM'S HOSPITAL
CHAPTER II. THE BARCHESTER REFORMER
CHAPTER III. THE BISHOP OF BARCHESTER
CHAPTER IV. HIRAM'S BEDESMEN
CHAPTER V. DR GRANTLY VISITS THE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER VI. THE WARDEN'S TEA PARTY
CHAPTER VII. THE JUPITER
CHAPTER VIII. PLUMSTEAD EPISCOPI
CHAPTER IX. THE CONFERENCE
CHAPTER X. TRIBULATION
CHAPTER XI. IPHIGENIA
CHAPTER XII. MR BOLD'S VISIT TO PLUMSTEAD
CHAPTER XIII. THE WARDEN'S DECISION
CHAPTER XIV. MOUNT OLYMPUS
CHAPTER XV. TOM TOWERS, DR ANTICANT, AND MR SENTIMENT
CHAPTER XVI. A LONG DAY IN LONDON
CHAPTER XVII. SIR ABRAHAM HAPHAZARD
CHAPTER XVIII. THE WARDEN IS VERY OBSTINATE
CHAPTER XIX. THE WARDEN RESIGNS
CHAPTER XX. FAREWELL
CHAPTER XXI. CONCLUSION
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Mr Harding himself has seen no reason why his daughter should not love John Bold. He has not been unobservant of her feelings, and perhaps his deepest regret at the part which he fears Bold is about to take regarding the hospital arises from the dread that he may be separated from his daughter, or that she may be separated from the man she loves. He has never spoken to Eleanor about her lover; he is the last man in the world to allude to such a subject unconsulted, even with his own daughter; and had he considered that he had ground to disapprove of Bold, he would have removed her, or forbidden him his house; but he saw no such ground. He would probably have preferred a second clerical son-in-law, for Mr Harding, also, is attached to his order; and, failing in that, he would at any rate have wished that so near a connection should have thought alike with him on church matters. He would not, however, reject the man his daughter loved because he differed on such subjects with himself.
Hitherto Bold had taken no steps in the matter in any way annoying to Mr Harding personally. Some months since, after a severe battle, which cost him not a little money, he gained a victory over a certain old turnpike woman in the neighbourhood, of whose charges another old woman had complained to him. He got the Act of Parliament relating to the trust, found that his protégée had been wrongly taxed, rode through the gate himself, paying the toll, then brought an action against the gate-keeper, and proved that all people coming up a certain by-lane, and going down a certain other by-lane, were toll-free. The fame of his success spread widely abroad, and he began to be looked on as the upholder of the rights of the poor of Barchester. Not long after this success, he heard from different quarters that Hiram's bedesmen were treated as paupers, whereas the property to which they were, in effect, heirs was very large; and he was instigated by the lawyer whom he had employed in the case of the turnpike to call upon Mr Chadwick for a statement as to the funds of the estate.
