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Title: Lady Anna

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: February 14, 2010 [eBook #31274]

Language: English

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LADY ANNA.

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

In Two Volumes.

VOL. I.

London:
Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.
1874.

[All rights reserved.]

London:
Printed by Virtue and Co.,
City Road.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

I. THE EARLY HISTORY OF LADY LOVEL.
II. THE EARL'S WILL.
III. LADY ANNA.
IV. THE TAILOR OF KESWICK.
V. THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL MAKES A PROPOSITION.
VI. YOXHAM RECTORY.
VII. THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL PERSEVERES.
VIII. IMPOSSIBLE!
IX. IT ISN'T LAW.
X. THE FIRST INTERVIEW.
XI. IT IS TOO LATE.
XII. HAVE THEY SURRENDERED?
XIII. NEW FRIENDS.
XIV. THE EARL ARRIVES.
XV. WHARFEDALE.
XVI. FOR EVER.
XVII. THE JOURNEY HOME.
XVIII. TOO HEAVY FOR SECRETS.
XIX. LADY ANNA RETURNS TO LONDON.
XX. LADY ANNA'S RECEPTION.
XXI. DANIEL AND THE LAWYER.
XXII. THERE IS A GULF FIXED.
XXIII. BEDFORD SQUARE.
XXIV. THE DOG IN THE MANGER.

LADY ANNA.

CHAPTER I.

THE EARLY HISTORY OF LADY LOVEL.

Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder
usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman than
that which fell to the lot of Josephine Murray from the hands
of Earl Lovel, to whom she was married in the parish church of
Applethwaite,--a parish without a village, lying among the mountains
of Cumberland,--on the 1st of June, 181--. That her marriage was
valid according to all the forms of the Church, if Lord Lovel were
then capable of marrying, no one ever doubted; nor did the Earl
ever allege that it was not so. Lovel Grange is a small house,
surrounded by a small domain,--small as being the residence of a rich
nobleman, lying among the mountains which separate Cumberland from
Westmoreland, about ten miles from Keswick, very lovely, from th