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Title: Marion Fay

Author: Anthony Trollope

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MARION FAY.

A Novel.

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE,

Author of
"Framley Parsonage," "Orley Farm," "The Way We Live Now," etc., etc.

In Three Volumes.

VOL. I.

London:
Chapman & Hall, Limited, 11, Henrietta St.
1882
[All Rights reserved.]

Bungay:
Clay and Taylor, Printers.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

I. THE MARQUIS OF KINGSBURY.
II. LORD HAMPSTEAD.
III. THE MARCHIONESS.
IV. LADY FRANCES.
V. MRS. RODEN.
VI. PARADISE ROW.
VII. THE POST OFFICE.
VIII. MR. GREENWOOD.
IX. AT KOENIGSGRAAF.
X. "NOBLESSE OBLIGE."
XI. LADY PERSIFLAGE.
XII. CASTLE HAUTBOY.
XIII. THE BRAESIDE HARRIERS.
XIV. COMING HOME FROM HUNTING.
XV. MARION FAY AND HER FATHER.
XVI. THE WALK BACK TO HENDON.
XVII. LORD HAMPSTEAD'S SCHEME.
XVIII. HOW THEY LIVED AT TRAFFORD PARK.
XIX. LADY AMALDINA'S LOVER.
XX. THE SCHEME IS SUCCESSFUL.
XXI. WHAT THEY ALL THOUGHT AS THEY WENT HOME.
XXII. AGAIN AT TRAFFORD.

MARION FAY.

CHAPTER I.

THE MARQUIS OF KINGSBURY.

When Mr. Lionel Trafford went into Parliament for the Borough of
Wednesbury as an advanced Radical, it nearly broke the heart of his
uncle, the old Marquis of Kingsbury. Among Tories of his day the
Marquis had been hyper-Tory,--as were his friends, the Duke of
Newcastle, who thought that a man should be allowed to do what he
liked with his own, and the Marquis of Londonderry, who, when some
such falling-off in the family politics came near him, spoke with
indignation of the family treasure which had been expended in
defending the family seat. Wednesbury had never been the Marquis's
own; but his nephew was so in a peculiar sense. His nephew was
necessarily his heir,--the future Marquis,--and the old Marquis never
again, po