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Title: Kept in the Dark

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: September 10, 2007 [eBook #22000]

Language: English

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KEPT IN THE DARK

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Originally published in serial form May through December, 1882, in
_Good Words_ and in book form in 1882. Trollope died during the last
month of serial publication.

CONTENTS

VOLUME I.

I. CECILIA HOLT AND HER THREE FRIENDS.
II. SIR FRANCIS GERALDINE.
III. THE END OF THAT EPISODE.
IV. MR. WESTERN.
V. CECILIA'S SECOND CHANCE.
VI. WHAT ALL HER FRIENDS SAID ABOUT IT.
VII. MISS ALTIFIORLA'S ARRIVAL.
VIII. LADY GRANT.
IX. MISS ALTIFIORLA'S DEPARTURE.
X. SIR FRANCIS TRAVELS WITH MISS ALTIFIORLA.
XI. MR. WESTERN HEARS THE STORY.
XII. MR. WESTERN'S DECISION.

VOLUME II.

XIII. MRS. WESTERN PREPARES TO LEAVE.
XIV. TO WHAT A PUNISHMENT!
XV. ONCE MORE AT EXETER.
XVI. "IT IS ALTOGETHER UNTRUE."
XVII. MISS ALTIFIORLA RISES IN THE WORLD.
XVIII. A MAN'S PRIDE.
XIX. DICK TAKES HIS FINAL LEAVE.
XX. THE SECRET ESCAPES.
XXI. LADY GRANT AT DRESDEN.
XXII. MR. WESTERN YIELDS.
XXIII. SIR FRANCIS' ESCAPE.
XIV. CONCLUSION.

VOLUME I.

CHAPTER I.

CECILIA HOLT AND HER THREE FRIENDS.

There came an episode in the life of Cecilia Holt which it is
essential should first be told. When she was twenty-two years old
she was living with her mother at Exeter. Mrs. Holt was a widow with
comfortable means,--ample that is for herself and her daughter to
supply them with all required by provincial comfort and provincial
fashion. They had a house without the city, with a garden and a
gardener and two boys, and they kept a brougham, which was the joint
care of the gardener and the boy inside and the boy outside. They
saw their friends and were seen by the