Lady Anna
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Trollope Anthony. Lady Anna
CHAPTER I. THE EARLY HISTORY OF LADY LOVEL
CHAPTER II. THE EARL'S WILL
CHAPTER III. LADY ANNA
CHAPTER IV. THE TAILOR OF KESWICK
CHAPTER V. THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL MAKES A PROPOSITION
CHAPTER VI. YOXHAM RECTORY
CHAPTER VII. THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL PERSEVERES
CHAPTER VIII. IMPOSSIBLE!
CHAPTER IX. IT ISN'T LAW
CHAPTER X. THE FIRST INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XI. IT IS TOO LATE
CHAPTER XII. HAVE THEY SURRENDERED?
CHAPTER XIII. NEW FRIENDS
CHAPTER XIV. THE EARL ARRIVES
CHAPTER XV. WHARFEDALE
CHAPTER XVI. FOR EVER
CHAPTER XVII. THE JOURNEY HOME
CHAPTER XVIII. TOO HEAVY FOR SECRETS
CHAPTER XIX. LADY ANNA RETURNS TO LONDON
CHAPTER XX. LADY ANNA'S RECEPTION
CHAPTER XXI. DANIEL AND THE LAWYER
CHAPTER XXII. THERE IS A GULF FIXED
CHAPTER XXIII. BEDFORD SQUARE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE DOG IN THE MANGER
CHAPTER XXV. DANIEL THWAITE'S LETTER
CHAPTER XXVI. THE KESWICK POET
CHAPTER XXVII. LADY ANNA'S LETTER
CHAPTER XXVIII. LOVEL V. MURRAY AND ANOTHER
CHAPTER XXIX. DANIEL THWAITE ALONE
CHAPTER XXX. JUSTICE IS TO BE DONE
CHAPTER XXXI. THE VERDICT
CHAPTER XXXII. WILL YOU PROMISE?
CHAPTER XXXIII. DANIEL THWAITE RECEIVES HIS MONEY
CHAPTER XXXIV. I WILL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR NOTHING
CHAPTER XXXV. THE SERJEANT AND MRS. BLUESTONE AT HOME
CHAPTER XXXVI. IT IS STILL TRUE
CHAPTER XXXVII. LET HER DIE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. LADY ANNA'S BEDSIDE
CHAPTER XXXIX. LADY ANNA'S OFFER
CHAPTER XL. NO DISGRACE AT ALL
CHAPTER XLI. NEARER AND NEARER
CHAPTER XLII. DANIEL THWAITE COMES TO KEPPEL STREET
CHAPTER XLIII. DANIEL THWAITE COMES AGAIN
CHAPTER XLIV. THE ATTEMPT AND NOT THE DEED CONFOUNDS US
CHAPTER XLV. THE LAWYERS AGREE
CHAPTER XLVI. HARD LINES
CHAPTER XLVII. THINGS ARRANGE THEMSELVES
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE MARRIAGE
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Not a word had been heard in Keswick of the proposed return of the old lord, – for the Earl was now an old man, – past his sixtieth year, and in truth with as many signs of age as some men bear at eighty. The life which he had led no doubt had had its allurements, but it is one which hardly admits of a hale and happy evening. Men who make women a prey, prey also on themselves. But there he was, back at Lovel Grange, and no one knew why he had come, nor whence, nor how. To Lovel Grange in those days, now some forty years ago, there was no road for wheels but that which ran through Keswick. Through Keswick he had passed in the middle of the night, taking on the post-horses which he had brought with him from Grassmere, so that no one in the town should see him and his companion. But it was soon known that he was there, and known also that he had a companion. For months he resided thus, and no one saw him but the domestics who waited upon him. But rumours got abroad as to his conduct, and people through the county declared that Earl Lovel was a maniac. Still his property was in his own control, and he did what it listed him to do.
As soon as men knew that he was in the land, claim after claim was made upon him for money due on behalf of his wife, and loudest among the claimants was Thomas Thwaite, the tailor. He was loudest and fiercest among the claimants, but was loud and fierce not in enmity to his old friend the Countess, but with a firm resolve to make the lord pay the only price of his wickedness which could be exacted from him. And if the Earl could be made to pay the claims against him which were made by his wife's creditors, then would the law, so far, have decided that the woman was his wife. No answer was made to any letter addressed to the Earl, and no one calling at the Grange could obtain speech or even sight of the noble owner. The lord's steward at the Grange referred all comers to the lord's attorneys in London, and the lord's attorneys simply repeated the allegation that the lady was not the lord's wife. At last there came tidings that an inquiry was to be made as to the state of the lord's health and the state of the lord's mind, on behalf of Frederic Lovel, the distant heir to the title. Let that question of the lord's marriage with Josephine Murray go as it might, Frederic Lovel, who had never seen his far-away cousin, must be the future earl. Of that there was no doubt; – and new inquiries were to be made. But it might well be that the interest of the young heir would be more deeply involved in the marriage question than in other matters concerning the family. Lovel Grange and the few mountain farms attached to the Cumberland estate must become his, let the frantic Earl do what damage he might to those who bore his name; but the bulk of the property, the wealth of the Lovels, the great riches which had enabled this mighty lord to live as a beast of prey among his kind, were at his own disposal. He had one child certainly, the Lady Anna, who would inherit it all were the father to die intestate, and were the marriage proved. The young heir and those near to him altogether disbelieved the marriage, – as was natural. They had never seen her who now called herself the Countess, but who for some years after her child was born had called herself Mrs. Murray, – who had been discarded by her own relations, and had taken herself to live with a country tailor. As years had rolled by the memory of what had really occurred in Applethwaite Church had become indistinct; and, though the reader knows that that marriage was capable of easy proof, – that there would have been but little difficulty had the only difficulty consisted in proving that, – the young heir and the distant Lovels were not assured of it. Their interest was adverse, and they were determined to disbelieve. But the Earl might, and probably would, leave all his wealth to a stranger. He had never in any way noticed his heir. He cared for none that bore his name. Those ties in the world which we call love, and deem respectable, and regard as happy, because they have to do with marriage and blood relationship as established by all laws since the days of Moses, were odious to him and ridiculous in his sight, because all obligations were distasteful to him, – and all laws, except those which preserved to him the use of his own money. But now there came up the great question whether he was mad or sane. It was at once rumoured that he was about to leave the country, and fly back to Sicily. Then it was announced that he was dead.
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"In such cases as this prejudices will arise, Miss Lovel. It is natural that you and your family should be prejudiced against these ladies. For myself, I am not aware that anything true can be alleged against them."
"The girl has disgraced herself with a tailor's son," almost screamed Miss Lovel.
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