Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne, by Anthony
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DR THORNE
by Anthony Trollope

CONTENTS
I THE GRESHAMS OF GRESHAMSBURY II LONG, LONG AGO
III DR THORNE IV LESSONS FROM COURCY CASTLE V
FRANK GRESHAM'S FIRST SPEECH VI FRANK GRESHAM'S
EARLY LOVES VII THE DOCTOR'S GARDEN VIII
MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTS IX SIR ROGER SCATCHERD X SIR
ROGER'S WILL XI THE DOCTOR DRINKS HIS TEA XII WHEN
GREEK MEETS GREEK, THEN COMES THE TUG OF WAR XIII
THE TWO UNCLES XIV SENTENCE OF EXILE XV COURCY
XVII MISS DUNSTABLE XVIII THE RIVALS XIX THE DUKE OF
OMNIUM XX THE PROPOSAL XXI MR MOFFAT FALLS INTO
TROUBLE XXII SIR ROGER IS UNSEATED XXIII
RETROSPECTIVE XXIV LOUIS SCATCHERD XXV SIR ROGER
DIES XXVI WAR XXVII MISS THORNE GOES ON A VISIT

XXVIII THE DOCTOR HEARS SOMETHING TO HIS
ADVANTAGE XXIX THE DONKEY RIDE XXX POST PRANDIAL
XXXI THE SMALL END OF THE WEDGE XXXII MR ORIEL
XXXIII A MORNING VISIT XXXIV A BAROUCHE AND FOUR
ARRIVES AT GRESHAMSBURY XXXV SIR LOUIS GOES OUT
TO DINNER XXXVI WILL HE COME AGAIN? XXXVII SIR
LOUIS LEAVES GRESHAMSBURY XXXVIII DE COURCY
PRECEPTS AND DE COURCY PRACTICE XXXIX WHAT THE
WORLD SAYS ABOUT BLOOD XL THE TWO DOCTORS
CHANGE PATIENTS XLI DOCTOR THORNE WON'T INTERFERE
XLII WHAT CAN YOU GIVE IN RETURN? XLIII THE RACE OF
SCATCHERD BECOMES EXTINCT XLIV SATURDAY EVENING
AND SUNDAY MORNING XLV LAW BUSINESS IN LONDON
XLVI OUR PET FOX FINDS A TAIL XLVII HOW THE BRIDE
WAS RECEIVED, AND WHO WERE ASKED TO THE WEDDING
CHAPTER I
THE GRESHAMS OF GRESHAMSBURY
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical
practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it
will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as
to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor
followed his profession.
There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor
so widely spoken of as some of its manufacturing leviathan brethren in
the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those who know it
well. Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and--let
us add--dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built
rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its
constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship
which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of
Goshen. It is purely agricultural; agricultural in its produce, agricultural
in its poor, and agricultural in its pleasures. There are towns in it, of
course; depots from whence are brought seeds and groceries, ribbons

and fire-shovels; in which markets are held and county balls are carried
on; which return members to Parliament, generally--in spite of Reform
Bills, past, present, and coming--in accordance with the dictates of
some neighbouring land magnate; from whence emanate the country
postmen, and where is located the supply of post-horses necessary for
county visitings. But these towns add nothing to the importance of the
county; dull, all but death-like single streets. Each possesses two pumps,
three hotels, ten shops, fifteen beer-houses, a beadle, and a
market-place.
Indeed, the town population of the county reckons for nothing when the
importance of the county is discussed, with the exception, as before
said, of the assize town, which is also a cathedral city. Herein a clerical
aristocracy, which is certainly not without its due weight. A resident
bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident
prebendaries,