Framley Parsonage

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...

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...

Hiram's Hospital According to Act of Parliament It is hardly necessary that I should here give to the public any lengthened biography of Mr. Harding up to the period of the commen...

Dr. and Mrs. Proudie This narrative is supposed to commence immediately after the installation of Dr. Proudie. I will not describe the ceremony, as I do not precisely understand i...

The Bishop's Chaplain Of the Rev. Mr. Slope's parentage I am not able to say much. I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted ...

A Morning Visit It was known that Dr. Proudie would immediately have to reappoint to the wardenship of the hospital under the act of Parliament to which allusion has been made; no...

War "Good heavens!" exclaimed the archdeacon, as he placed his foot on the gravel walk of the close, and raising his hat with one hand, passed the other somewhat violently over hi...

The Dean and Chapter Take Counsel All Barchester was in a tumult. Dr. Grantly could hardly get himself out of the cathedral porch before he exploded in his wrath. The old dean bet...

The Ex-warden Rejoices in His Probable Return to the Hospital Among the ladies in Barchester who have hitherto acknowledged Mr. Slope as their spiritual director must not be recko...

The Stanhope Family It is now three months since Dr. Proudie began his reign, and changes have already been effected in the diocese which show at least the energy of an active min...

Mrs. Proudie's Reception--Commenced The bishop and his wife had spent only three or four days in Barchester on the occasion of their first visit. His lordship had, as we have seen...

Mrs. Proudie's Reception--Concluded "Bishop of Barchester, I presume?" said Bertie Stanhope, putting out his hand frankly; "I am delighted to make your acquaintance. We are in rat...

Slope versus Harding Two or three days after the party, Mr. Harding received a note begging him to call on Mr. Slope, at the palace, at an early hour on the following morning. The...

The Rubbish Cart Mr. Harding was not a happy man as he walked down the palace pathway and stepped out into the close. His preferment and pleasant house were a second time gone fro...

The New Champion The archdeacon did not return to the parsonage till close upon the hour of dinner, and there was therefore no time to discuss matters before that important ceremo...

The Widow's Suitors Mr. Slope lost no time in availing himself of the bishop's permission to see Mr. Quiverful, and it was in his interview with this worthy pastor that he first l...

Baby Worship "Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle, dum, dum, dum," said or sung Eleanor Bold. "Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle, dum, dum, dum," continued Mary Bold, taking up the secon...

Who Shall Be Cock of the Walk? All this time things were going somewhat uneasily at the palace. The hint or two which Mr. Slope had given was by no means thrown away upon the bish...

The Widow's Persecution Early on the following morning Mr. Slope was summoned to the bishop's dressing-room, and went there fully expecting that he should find his lordship very i...

Barchester by Moonlight There was much cause for grief and occasional perturbation of spirits in the Stanhope family, but yet they rarely seemed to be grieved or to be disturbed. ...

Mr. Arabin The Rev. Francis Arabin, fellow of Lazarus, late professor of poetry at Oxford, and present vicar of St. Ewold, in the diocese of Barchester, must now be introduced per...

St. Ewold's Parsonage When Mr. Harding and Mrs. Bold reached the rectory on the following morning, the archdeacon and his friend were at St. Ewold's. They had gone over that the n...

The Thornes of Ullathorne On the following Sunday Mr. Arabin was to read himself in at his new church. It was agreed at the rectory that the archdeacon should go over with him and...

Mr. Arabin Reads Himself in at St. Ewold's On the Sunday morning the archdeacon with his sister-in-law and Mr. Arabin drove over to Ullathorne, as had been arranged. On their way ...

Mr. Slope Manages Matters Very Cleverly at Puddingdale The next two weeks passed pleasantly enough at Plumstead. The whole party there assembled seemed to get on well together. El...

Fourteen Arguments in Favour of Mr. Quiverful's Claims We have most of us heard of the terrible anger of a lioness when, surrounded by her cubs, she guards her prey. Few of us wis...

Mrs. Proudie Wrestles and Gets a Fall It was hardly an hour since Mrs. Proudie had left her husband's apartment victorious, and yet so indomitable was her courage that she now ret...

A Love Scene Mr. Slope, as we have said, left the palace with a feeling of considerable triumph. Not that he thought that his difficulties were all over--he did not so deceive him...

Mrs. Bold is Entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Grantly at Plumstead It will be remembered that Mr. Slope, when leaving his _billet-doux_ at the house of Mrs. Bold, had been informed tha...

A Serious Interview There are people who delight in serious interviews, especially when to them appertains the part of offering advice or administering rebuke, and perhaps the arc...

Another Love Scene But there was another visitor at the rectory whose feelings in this unfortunate matter must be somewhat strictly analysed. Mr. Arabin had heard from his friend ...

The Bishop's Library And thus the pleasant party at Plumstead was broken up. It had been a very pleasant party as long as they had all remained in good humour with one another. Mr...

A New Candidate for Ecclesiastical Honours The dean's illness occasioned much mental turmoil in other places besides the deanery and adjoining library, and the idea which occurred...

Mrs. Proudie Victrix The next week passed over at Barchester with much apparent tranquillity. The hearts, however, of some of the inhabitants were not so tranquil as the streets o...

Oxford--The Master and Tutor of Lazarus Mr. Arabin, as we have said, had but a sad walk of it under the trees of Plumstead churchyard. He did not appear to any of the family till ...

Miss Thorne's Fête Champêtre The day of the Ullathorne party arrived, and all the world were there--or at least so much of the world as had been included in Miss Thorne's invitati...

Ullathorne Sports--Act I The trouble in civilized life of entertaining company, as it is called too generally without much regard to strict veracity, is so great that it cannot bu...

The Signora Neroni, the Countess De Courcy, and Mrs. Proudie Meet Each Other at Ullathorne And now there were new arrivals. Just as Eleanor reached the drawing-room the signora wa...

The Bishop Sits Down to Breakfast, and the Dean Dies The Bishop of Barchester said grace over the well-spread board in the Ullathorne dining-room; while he did so, the last breath...

The Lookalofts and the Greenacres On the whole, Miss Thorne's provision for the amusement and feeding of the outer classes in the exoteric paddock was not unsuccessful. Two littl...

Ullathorne Sports--Act II "That which has made them drunk has made me bold." 'Twas thus that Mr. Slope encouraged himself, as he left the dining-room in pursuit of Eleanor. He had...

Mrs. Bold Confides Her Sorrow to Her Friend Miss Stanhope When Mrs. Bold came to the end of the walk and faced the lawn, she began to bethink herself what she should do. Was she t...

Ullathorne Sports--Act III And now Miss Thorne's guests were beginning to take their departure, and the amusement of those who remained was becoming slack. It was getting dark, an...

Mr. and Mrs. Quiverful Are Made Happy. Mr. Slope is Encouraged by the Press Before she started for Ullathorne, Mrs. Proudie, careful soul, caused two letters to be written, one by...

Mrs. Bold at Home Poor Mrs. Bold, when she got home from Ullathorne on the evening of Miss Thorne's party, was very unhappy and, moreover, very tired. Nothing fatigues the body so...

The Stanhopes at Home We must now return to the Stanhopes and see how they behaved themselves on their return from Ullathorne. Charlotte, who came back in the first homeward jour...

Mr. Slope's Parting Interview with the Signora On the following day the signora was in her pride. She was dressed in her brightest of morning dresses, and had quite a levée round ...

The Dean Elect During the entire next week Barchester was ignorant who was to be its new dean. On Sunday morning Mr. Slope was decidedly the favourite, but he did not show himself...

Miss Thorne Shows Her Talent at Match-Making On Mr. Harding's return to Barchester from Plumstead, which was effected by him in due course in company with the archdeacon, more tid...

The Beelzebub Colt When Miss Thorne left the dining-room, Eleanor had formed no intention of revealing to her what had occurred, but when she was seated beside her hostess on the ...

The Archdeacon Is Satisfied with the State of Affairs The archdeacon, in his journey into Barchester, had been assured by Mr. Harding that all their prognostications about Mr. Slo...

Mr. Slope Bids Farewell to the Palace and Its Inhabitants We must now take leave of Mr. Slope, and of the bishop also, and of Mrs. Proudie. These leave-takings in novels are as di...

The New Dean Takes Possession of the Deanery, and the New Warden of the Hospital Mr. Harding and the archdeacon together made their way to Oxford, and there, by dint of cunning ar...

Conclusion The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. There is now nothing else to be told but the gala doings o...