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Title: Rachel Ray

Author: Anthony Trollope

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Language: English

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RACHEL RAY

A Novel.

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE,

Author of
"Barchester Towers," "Castle Richmond," "Orley Farm," Etc.

In Two Volumes.

VOL. I.

London:
Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.
1863.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]

London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons,
Stamford Street and Charing Cross.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. THE RAY FAMILY.
CHAPTER II. THE YOUNG MAN FROM THE BREWERY.
CHAPTER III. THE ARM IN THE CLOUDS.
CHAPTER IV. WHAT SHALL BE DONE ABOUT IT?
CHAPTER V. MR. COMFORT GIVES HIS ADVICE.
CHAPTER VI. PREPARATIONS FOR MRS. TAPPITT'S PARTY.
CHAPTER VII. AN ACCOUNT OF MRS. TAPPITT'S BALL--COMMENCED.
CHAPTER VIII. AN ACCOUNT OF MRS. TAPPITT'S BALL--CONCLUDED.
CHAPTER IX. MR. PRONG AT HOME.
CHAPTER X. LUKE ROWAN DECLARES HIS PLANS
AS TO THE BREWERY.
CHAPTER XI. LUKE ROWAN TAKES HIS TEA QUITE
LIKE A STEADY YOUNG MAN.
CHAPTER XII. MR. TAPPITT IN HIS COUNTING-HOUSE.
CHAPTER XIII. RACHEL RAY THINKS "SHE DOES LIKE HIM."
CHAPTER XIV. LUKE ROWAN PAYS A SECOND VISIT TO BRAGG'S END.
CHAPTER XV. MATERNAL ELOQUENCE.

RACHEL RAY.

CHAPTER I.

THE RAY FAMILY.

There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;--for whom
the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is
absolutely necessary;--who, in their growth, will bend and incline
themselves towards some such prop for their life, creeping with their
tendrils along the ground till they reach it when the circumstances
of life have brought no such prop within their natural and immediate
reach. Of most women it may be said that it would be well for them
that they should marry,--as indeed of most men also, seeing that man
and wife will each lend the o