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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Mr. Scarborough's Family, by Anthony Trollope This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Mr. Scarborough's Family Author: Anthony Trollope Release Date: May 2, 2004 [eBook #12234] Most recently updated: June 15, 2010 Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY*** E-text prepared by Steven desJardins, Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D., and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE 1883 PART I. CHAPTER I. MR. SCARBOROUGH. It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book--though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all by those who look to incidents for their interest in a tale--are in this way only preliminary. The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborough declared that his well-known eldest son was not legitimate. Mr. Scarborough himself had not been well known in early life. He had been the only son of a squire in Staffordshire over whose grounds a town had been built and pottery-works established. In this way a property which had not originally been extensive had been greatly increased in value, and Mr. Scarborough, when he came into possession, had found himself to be a rich man. He had then gone abroad, and had there married an English lady. After the lapse of some years he had returned to Tretton Park, as his place was named, and there had lost his wife. He had come back with two sons, Mountjoy and Augustus, and there, at Tretton, he had lived, spending, however, a considerable portion of each year in chambers in the Albany. He was a man who, through many years, had had his own circle of friends, but, as I have said before, he was not much known in the world. He was luxurious and self-indulgent, and altogether indifferent to the opinion of those aroun
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