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TITLE: BARCHESTER TOWERS
AUTHOR: ANTHONY TROLLOPE
EBOOK: E01129 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

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Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I	Who will Be the New Bishop?

II	Hiram's Hospital, According to Act of Parliament

III	Dr. and Mrs. Proudie

IV	The Bishop's Chaplain

V	A Morning Visit

VI	War

VII	The Dean and Chapter Take Counsel

VIII	The Ex-Warden Rejoices in His Probable Return to the Hospital

IX	The Stanhope Family

X	Mrs. Proudie's Reception--Commenced

XI	Mrs. Proudie's Reception--Concluded

XII	Slope versus Harding

XIII	The Rubbish Cart

XIV	The New Champion

XV	The Widow's Suitors

XVI	Baby Worship

XVII	Who Shall Be Cock of the Walk?

XVIII	The Widow's Persecution

XIX	Barchester by Moonlight

XX	Mr. Arabin

XXI	St Ewold's Parsonage

XXII	The Thornes of Ullathorne

XXIII	Mr. Arabin Reads Himself in at St. Ewold's

XXIV	Mr. Slope Manages Very Cleverly at Puddingdale

XXV	Fourteen Arguments in Favour of Mr. Quiverful's Claims

XXVI	Mrs. Proudie Wrestles and Gets a Fall

XXVII	A Love Scene

XXVIII	Mrs. Bold is Entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Grantly at Plumstead

XXIX	A Serious Interview

XXX	Another Love Scene

XXXI	The Bishop's Library

XXXII	A New Candidate for Ecclesiastical Honours

XXXIII	Mrs. Proudie Victrix

XXXIV	Oxford--The Master and Tutor of Lazarus

XXXV	Miss Thorne's F?te Champ?tre

XXXVI	Ullathorne Sports--Act I.

XXXVII	The Countess De Courcy, Mrs. Proudie, and the Signora
Neroni Meet Each Other at Ullathorne

XXXVIII	The Bishop Sits Down to Breakfast, and the Dean Dies

XXXIX	The Lookalofts and the Greenacres

XL	Ullathorne Sports--Act II.

XLI	Mrs. Bold Confides Her Sorrow to Her Friend Miss Stanhope

XLII	Ullathorne Sports--Act III.

XLIII	Mr. and Mrs. Quiverful Are Made Happy.  Mr. Slope Is
Encouraged by the Press

XLIV	Mrs. Bold at Home

XLV	The Stanhopes at Home

XLVI	Mr. Slope's Parting Interview with the Signora

XLVII	The Dean Elect

XLVIII	Miss Thorne Shows Her Talent at Match-making

XLIX	The Beelzebub Colt

L	The Archdeacon Is Satisfied with the State of Affairs

LI	Mr. Slope Bids Farewell to the Palace and Its Inhabitants

LII	The New Dean Takes Possession of the Deanery, and the New
Warden of the Hospital

LIII	Conclusion

CHAPTER I

Who Will Be the New Bishop?

In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important
question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of
Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be
the new bishop?

The death of old Dr. Grantly, who had for many years filled that
chair with meek authority, took place exactly as the ministry of Lord
----- was going to give place to that of Lord ----.  The illness of
the good old man was long and lingering, and it became at last a
matter of intense interest to those concerned whether the new
appointment should be made by a conservative or liberal government.

It was pretty well understood that the outgoing premier had made his
selection and that if the question rested with him, the mitre would
descend on the head of Archdeacon Grantly, the old bishop's son.  The
archdeacon had long managed the affairs of the diocese, and for some
months previous to the demise of his father rumour had confidently
assigned to him the reversion of his father's honours.

Bishop Grantly died as he had lived, peaceably, slowly, without pain
and without excitement.  The breath ebbed from him almost
imperceptibly, and for a month before his death it was a question
whether he were alive or dead.

A trying time was this for the archdeacon, for whom was designed the
reversion of his father's see by those who then had the giving away
of episcopal thrones.  I would not be understood to say that the
prime minister had in so many words promised the bishopric to Dr.
Grantly.  He was too discreet a man for that.  There is a proverb
with reference to the killing of cats, and those who know anything
either of high or low government places will be well aware that a
promise may be made without positive words and that an expectant may
be put into the highest state of encouragement, though the great man
on whose breath he hangs may have done no more than whisper that "Mr.
So-and-So is certainly a rising man."

Such a whisper had been made, and was known by those who heard it to
signify that the cures of the diocese of Barchester should not be
taken out of the hands of the archdeacon.  The then prime minister
was all in all at Oxford, and had lately passed a night at the house
of the Master of Lazarus.  Now the Master of Lazarus--which is, by
the by, in many respects the most comfortable as well as the richest
college at Oxford--was the archdeacon's most intimate friend and most
trusted counsellor.  On the occasion of the prime minister's visit,
Dr. Grantly was of course present, and the meeting was very gracious. 
On the following morning Dr. Gwynne, the master, told the archdeacon
that in his opinion the thing was settled.

At this time the bishop was quite on his last legs; but the ministry
also were tottering.  Dr. Grantly returned from Oxford, happy and
elated, to resume his place in the palace and to continue to perform
for the father the last duties of a son, which, to give him his due,
he performed with more tender care than was to be expected from his
usual somewhat worldly manners.

A month since, the physicians had named four weeks as the outside
period during which breath could be supported within the body of the
dying man.  At the end of the month the physicians wondered, and
named another fortnight.  The old man lived on wine alone, but at the
end of the fortnight he still lived, and the tidings of the fall of
the ministry became more frequent.  Sir Lamda Mewnew and Sir Omicron
Pie, the two great London doctors, now came down for the fifth time
and declared, shaking their learned heads, that another week of life
was impossible; and as they sat down to lunch in the episcopal
dining-room, whispered to the archdeacon their own private knowledge
that the ministry must fall with five days.  The son returned to his 
father's room and, after administering with his own hands the
sustaining modicum of madeira, sat down by the bedside to calculate
his chances.

The ministry were to be out within five days: his father was to be
dead within--no, he rejected that view of the subject.  The ministry
were to be out, and the diocese might probably be vacant at the same
period.  There was much doubt as to the names of the men who were to

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