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Chapter 3 GERARD MAULE.

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nd had put on smoking caps,-Lord Chiltern, indeed, having clothed himself in a wonderful Chinese dressing-gown, and they were sittin

verything in two minute

rubbing his hands as he walked about the room. "Can't you fancy all that she'd

de Miss Bore

er than they were at home," said the

old

see Sister Veronica?

once," said

on," said the husband. "You should hear Gerard Maule

t her friend, and Phineas was almost sure that Gerard

ly of mine," sai

to hounds," said Lord Chiltern, "and who v

Lord Chiltern,"

enty of horses, and nothing else to do, and rides twelve stone, and doesn't care how he's sworn

of Oswald's. He is to be here to-morrow, and

l as you do, Violet. But Mr. Maule is so har

so sure," said Lady Chiltern.

Tankerville on the tenth. He rode Lord Chiltern's horses, and took an interest in the hounds, and nursed t

he young man that is dy

on, Mr. Finn, without mak

sent moment to say all good things of him. At such a crisis it would be wic

t I tell everything

I take him to be a good sort of a fello

's ju

ommend them to nobody. A man can't suppose that he'll gain anything by pretending that he never reads, and never thinks, and never does anything, and never speaks, and doesn't care what he has for dinner

r rose colo

cy, Lady Chiltern. I s

ty is not large, and I'm afraid

no pro

is independent of his father. He has nothing on earth to do. Adelaide's whole fo

't be enough

have the property some day,-if only he had some

uldn't become a

ll-natured

I did not indeed. You m

me when I wished that he should take to Parliament. No one knew all

fferent,

oes work hard. No man works harder. The learned people say that you should produce something, and I don't

nk that I mean

ope

s father on go

m to go to Saulsby, but he won

long to this Lord Chiltern, and Phineas, as he heard this, remembered former days in which he had ridd

him altered, Mr. Finn. He is quite an old man now. He was here in the spring, for a week or two;-in England, tha

she

to him. Though they were true, or at least meant to be true, they were full of flattery. Why should this woman of whom they were speaking love him so dearly? She was nothing to him. She was highly born, greatly gifted, wealthy, and a married woman, whose character, as he well knew, was beyond the taint of suspicion, though she had been driven by the hard sullenness of her husband to refuse to live under his roof. Phineas F

en think of her?"

ed, I

orgave you! How hard she fought for you! Now, though she

Lady L

uch shipwreck it makes a woman doubt

a good man. She

n altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so. Look at this Mr. Maule, who is really over head and ears in love with Adelaid

are to be

earnest. Girls will accept men simply because they think it ill

se she l

she positively dislikes him. But why should she like him? He is good-looking, is a gentleman,

epted who is not cre

spect to some part of his character. I can f

are not in love with

he admitted to himself that the pleasure which he had received during his visit was quite sufficient to qualify him in running any risk

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Contents

Chapter 1 TEMPTATION. Chapter 2 HARRINGTON HALL. Chapter 3 GERARD MAULE. Chapter 4 TANKERVILLE. Chapter 5 MR. DAUBENY'S GREAT MOVE. Chapter 6 PHINEAS AND HIS OLD FRIENDS. Chapter 7 COMING HOME FROM HUNTING. Chapter 8 THE ADDRESS. Chapter 9 THE DEBATE. Chapter 10 THE DESERTED HUSBAND. Chapter 11 THE TRUANT WIFE.
Chapter 12 K NIGSTEIN.
Chapter 13 I HAVE GOT THE SEAT.
Chapter 14 TRUMPETON WOOD.
Chapter 15 HOW WELL YOU KNEW!
Chapter 16 COPPERHOUSE CROSS AND BROUGHTON SPINNIES.
Chapter 17 MADAME GOESLER'S STORY.
Chapter 18 SPOONER OF SPOON HALL.
Chapter 19 SOMETHING OUT OF THE WAY.
Chapter 20 PHINEAS AGAIN IN LONDON.
Chapter 21 MR. MAULE, SENIOR.
Chapter 22 PURITY OF MORALS, FINN.
Chapter 23 MACPHERSON'S HOTEL.
Chapter 24 MADAME GOESLER IS SENT FOR.
Chapter 25 I WOULD DO IT NOW.
Chapter 26 THE DUKE'S WILL.
Chapter 27 AN EDITOR'S WRATH.
Chapter 28 THE FIRST THUNDERBOLT.
Chapter 29 THE SPOONER CORRESPONDENCE.
Chapter 30 REGRETS.
Chapter 31 THE DUKE AND DUCHESS IN TOWN.
Chapter 32 THE WORLD BECOMES COLD.
Chapter 33 THE TWO GLADIATORS.
Chapter 34 THE UNIVERSE.
Chapter 35 POLITICAL VENOM.
Chapter 36 SEVENTY-TWO.
Chapter 37 THE CONSPIRACY.
Chapter 38 ONCE AGAIN IN PORTMAN SQUARE.
Chapter 39 CAGLIOSTRO.
Chapter 40 THE PRIME MINISTER IS HARD PRESSED.
Chapter 41 I HOPE I'M NOT DISTRUSTED.
Chapter 42 BOULOGNE.
Chapter 43 THE SECOND THUNDERBOLT.
Chapter 44 THE BROWBOROUGH TRIAL.
Chapter 45 SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF MR. EMILIUS.
Chapter 46 THE QUARREL.
Chapter 47 WHAT CAME OF THE QUARREL.
Chapter 48 MR. MAULE'S ATTEMPT.
Chapter 49 SHOWING WHAT MRS. BUNCE SAID TO THE POLICEMAN.
Chapter 50 WHAT THE LORDS AND COMMONS SAID
Chapter 51 YOU THINK IT SHAMEFUL.
Chapter 52 MR. KENNEDY'S WILL.
Chapter 53 NONE BUT THE BRAVE DESERVE THE FAIR.
Chapter 54 THE DUCHESS TAKES COUNSEL.
Chapter 55 PHINEAS IN PRISON.
Chapter 56 THE MEAGER FAMILY.
Chapter 57 THE BEGINNING OF THE SEARCH
Chapter 58 THE TWO DUKES.
Chapter 59 MRS. BONTEEN.
Chapter 60 TWO DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL.
Chapter 61 THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIAL.
Chapter 62 LORD FAWN'S EVIDENCE.
Chapter 63 MR. CHAFFANBRASS FOR THE DEFENCE.
Chapter 64 CONFUSION IN THE COURT.
Chapter 65 I HATE HER!
Chapter 66 THE FOREIGN BLUDGEON.
Chapter 67 THE VERDICT.
Chapter 68 PHINEAS AFTER THE TRIAL.
Chapter 69 THE DUKE'S FIRST COUSIN.
Chapter 70 I WILL NOT GO TO LOUGHLINTER.
Chapter 71 PHINEAS FINN IS RE-ELECTED.
Chapter 72 THE END OF THE STORY OF
Chapter 73 PHINEAS FINN RETURNS TO HIS DUTIES.
Chapter 74 AT MATCHING.
Chapter 75 THE TRUMPETON FEUD IS SETTLED.
Chapter 76 MADAME GOESLER'S LEGACY.
Chapter 77 PHINEAS FINN'S SUCCESS.
Chapter 78 THE LAST VISIT TO SAULSBY.
Chapter 79 AT LAST-AT LAST.
Chapter 80 CONCLUSION.
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