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Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed and the county... Read Full Overview

Anthony Trollope's classic short work.

Dr. Wortle's school Anthony Trollope There had, too, been some fighting between Dr Wortle and the world about his school. He was, as I have said, a thoroughly generous man, but he required, himself, to be treated with generosity. Any question as to the charges made by him as... Read Full Overview

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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... Read Full Overview

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