Mark Robarts has a comfortable living at Framley, thanks to Lady Lufton, but he hankers after grander company. Drawn into the fast Chaldicotes set, he signs a bill for the smooth Mr. Sowerby and is soon in trouble. Meanwhile his sister Lucy and Lady Lufton’s son fall in love, much to her ladyship’s alarm.
The fourth Barsetshire novel, serialised in the first numbers of the Cornhill, shows Trollope at his most assured. Download the free EPUB.