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Chapter XLI. The Value of a Thick Skin
Chapter XLIV. Mr. Wharton Intends to Make a New Will
Chapter XLV. Mrs. Sexty Parker
Chapter XLVI. “He Wants to Get Rich Too Quick”
Chapter XLVIII. “Has He Illtreated You?”
Chapter XLIX. “Where Is Guatemala?”
Chapter L. Mr. Slide’s Revenge
Chapter LI. Coddling the Prime Minister
Chapter LII. “I Can Sleep Here Tonight, I Suppose?”
Chapter LV. Mrs. Parker’s Sorrows
Chapter LVI. What the Duchess Thought of Her Husband
Chapter LVIII. “Quite Settled”
Chapter LIX. “The First and the Last”
Chapter LX. The Tenway Junction
Chapter LXI. The Widow and Her Friends
Chapter LXII. Phineas Finn Has a Book to Read
Chapter LXIII. The Duchess and Her Friend
Chapter LXV. “There Must Be Time”
Chapter LXVI. The End of the Session
Chapter LXVII. Mrs. Lopez Prepares to Move
Chapter LXVIII. The Prime Minister’s Political Creed
Chapter LXIX. Mrs. Parker’s Fate
Chapter LXXI. The Ladies at Longbarns Doubt
Chapter LXXII. “He Thinks That Our Days Are Numbered”
Chapter LXXIII. Only the Duke of Omnium
Chapter LXXIV. “I Am Disgraced and Shamed”
Chapter LXXV. The Great Wharton Alliance
Chapter LXXVI. Who Will It Be?
Chapter LXXVII. The Duchess in Manchester Square
Chapter LXXVIII. The New Ministry
Chapter LXXIX. The Wharton Wedding
Chapter LXXX. The Last Meeting at Matching
Volume I
Chapter I.
Ferdinand Lopez
It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as of persons who were themselves somebodies in their time. No doubt we all entertain great respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chancellor or Archbishop of Canterbury we do, theoretically and abstractedly, feel a higher reverence for such self-made magnate than for one who has been as it were born into forensic or
