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Title: The Belton Estate

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: April 7, 2002 [eBook #4969]
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Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BELTON ESTATE***

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THE BELTON ESTATE

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

First published in serial form in the _Fortnightly Review_
in 1865 and in book form the same year

CONTENTS

I. THE REMNANTS OF THE AMEDROZ FAMILY.
II. THE HEIR PROPOSES TO VISIT HIS COUSINS.
III. WILL BELTON.
IV. SAFE AGAINST LOVE-MAKING.
V. NOT SAFE AGAINST LOVE-MAKING.
VI. SAFE AGAINST LOVE-MAKING ONCE AGAIN.
VII. MISS AMEDROZ GOES TO PERIVALE.
VIII. CAPTAIN AYLMER MEETS HIS CONSTITUENTS.
IX. CAPTAIN AYLMER'S PROMISE TO HIS AUNT.
X. SHOWING HOW CAPTAIN AYLMER KEPT HIS PROMISE.
XI. MISS AMEDROZ IS TOO CANDID BY HALF.
XII. MISS AMEDROZ RETURNS HOME.
XIII. MR. WILLIAM BELTON TAKES A WALK IN THE COUNTRY.
XIV. MR. WILLIAM BELTON TAKES A WALK IN LONDON.
XV. EVIL WORDS.
XVI. THE HEIR'S SECOND VISIT TO BELTON.
XVII. AYLMER PARK.
XVIII. MRS. ASKERTON'S STORY.
XIX. MISS AMEDROZ HAS ANOTHER CHANCE.
XX. WILLIAM BELTON DOES NOT GO OUT HUNTING.
XXI. MRS. ASKERTON'S GENEROSITY.
XXII. PASSIONATE PLEADING.
XXIII. THE LAST DAY AT BELTON.
XXIV. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY HOTEL.
XXV. MISS AMEDROZ HAS SOME HASHED CHICKEN.
XXVI. THE AYLMER PARK HASHED CHICKEN COMES TO AN END.
XXVII. ONCE MORE BACK TO BELTON.
XXVIII. MISS AMEDROZ IS PURSUED.
XXIX. THERE IS NOTHING TO TELL.
XXX. MARY BELTON.
XXXI. TAKING POSSESSION.
XXXII. CONCLUSION.

CHAPTER I.

THE REMNANTS OF THE AMEDROZ FAMILY.

Mrs. Amedroz, the wife of Bernard Amedroz, Esq., of Belton Castle,
and mother of Charles and Clara Amedroz, died when those children
were only eight and six years old, thereby subjecting them