M A R Y G R E S L E Y
AND
AN EDITOR’S TALES.
BYANTHONY TROLLOPE,
AUTHOR OF
“DOCTOR THORNE,”
“PHINEAS FINN,”
“LOTTA SCHMIDT,”
“ORLEY FARM,”
ETC.
NEW EDITION.
LONDON:CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1873.
[The right of translation is reserved.]
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| MARY GRESLEY | 1 |
| THE TURKISH BATH | 49 |
| JOSEPHINE DE MONTMORENCI | 95 |
| THE PANJANDRUM— | |
| PART I.—HOPE | 141 |
| PART II.—DESPAIR | 189 |
| THE SPOTTED DOG— | |
| PART I.—THE ATTEMPT | 227 |
| PART II.—THE RESULT | 275 |
| MRS. BRUMBY | 321 |
MARY GRESLEY.
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MARY GRESLEY.
WE have known many prettier girls than Mary Gresley, and many handsomerwomen—but we never knew girl or woman gifted with a face which insupplication was more suasive, in grief more sad, in mirth more merry.It was a face that compelled sympathy, and it did so with the convictionon the mind of the sympathiser that the girl was altogether unconsciousof her own power. In her intercourse with us there was, alas! much moreof sorrow than of mirth, and we may truly say that in her sufferings wesuffered; but still there came to us from our intercourse with her muchof delight mingled with the sorrow; and that delight arose, partly nodoubt from her woman’s charms, from the bright eye, the beseechingmouth, the soft little hand, and the feminine grace of her unpretendinggarments; but chiefly, we think, from the extreme humanity of the girl.She had little, indeed none, of that which the