Plot
Louis Trevelyan on a visit to the Mandarin Islands fell in love with Emily Rowley,
daughter of the Governor. After their marriage they returned to England, taking
with them Nora Rowley, a young sister of the bride. As "master in his own
house" Trevelyan forbade Emily to receive her father's old friend Colonel
Osborne, who had a reputation in London
as a philanderer. The Colonel persisted in his attentions, and the young
husband became madly jealous. Emily indignantly resented her husband's
continued outbursts of distrust and finally, taking their small son, left him.
Knowing that he was right, he decided that Emily was unworthy to care for their
child and, after making careful plans, succeeded in abducting him. He fled to Italy where,
brooding on his misfortunes, he went completely mad. Emily followed him and he
was eventually induced to return to England where he soon died.
One of Trevelyan's oldest friends was Hugh Stanbury, who had decided on a career as a newspaper man in
London, greatly
to the outspoken dismay of his old Aunt Stanbury, who
had paid his college bills and expected great things of him. Hugh and Nora
Rowley were thrown much together during the sad day of the Trevelyans'
troubles, and although Nora was courted by the wealthy Charles Glascock and
could have looked forward to a future as Lady Peterborough, she chose to marry
for love.
Life in the Cathedral Close with Aunt Stanbury fell to the lot of Hugh's pretty sister Dorothy,
and the story of her life and loves forms a happy contrast to the gloom of the
principal plot.
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of Princeton
University Press.
Url: http://www.anthonytrollope.com/
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés
López
©Davinia Moreno Arroyo
Universitat de Valčncia
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