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Title: Dr. Wortle's School

Author: Anthony Trollope

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Language: English

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DR. WORTLE'S SCHOOL.

A Novel.

BY

ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. I.

London:
Chapman and Hall, Limited, 193, Piccadilly.
1881.

London:
R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers,
Bread Street Hill.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

PART I.

CHAPTER I. DR. WORTLE

CHAPTER II. THE NEW USHER

CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERY

PART II.

CHAPTER IV. THE DOCTOR ASKS HIS QUESTION

CHAPTER V. "THEN WE MUST GO"

CHAPTER VI. LORD CARSTAIRS

PART III.

CHAPTER VII. ROBERT LEFROY

CHAPTER VIII. THE STORY IS TOLD

CHAPTER IX. MRS. WORTLE AND MR. PUDDICOMBE

PART IV.

CHAPTER X. MR. PEACOCKE GOES

CHAPTER XI. THE BISHOP

CHAPTER XII. THE STANTILOUP CORRESPONDENCE

DR. WORTLE'S SCHOOL.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

DR. WORTLE.

THE Rev. Jeffrey Wortle, D.D., was a man much esteemed by others,--and by
himself. He combined two professions, in both of which he had been
successful,--had been, and continued to be, at the time in which we speak
of him. I will introduce him to the reader in the present tense as Rector
of Bowick, and proprietor and head-master of the school established in the
village of that name. The seminary at Bowick had for some time enjoyed a
reputation under him;--not that he had ever himself used so new-fangled
and unpalatable a word in speaking of his school. Bowick School had been
est