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Mr. Scarborough's Family
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Title: Mr. Scarborough's Family
Author: Anthony Trollope
Release Date: May 2, 2004 [eBook #12234]
Language: English
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MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE
1883
PART I.
CHAPTER I
.MR. SCARBOROUGH.
It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book--though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all by those who look to incidents for their interest in a tale--are in this way only preliminary.
The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborough declared that his well-known eldest son was not legitimate. Mr. Scarborough himself had not been well known in early life. He had been the only son of a squire in Staffordshire over whose grounds a town had been built and pottery-works established.