Old John Scarborough of Tretton, dying but still cunning, announces that his elder son Mountjoy, a gambler drowning in debt to moneylenders, is illegitimate, so that the estate will pass to the younger son Augustus. As the creditors rage and the brothers turn on one another, Harry Annesley’s love for Florence Mountjoy becomes caught up in the family’s quarrels.
One of Trollope’s last novels, a sly and surprising study of law, property and a father’s will. Download the free EPUB.