Can You Forgive Her?

Three Women and Their Choices of Husband

Anthony Trollope

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486902840
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A woman jilts a respectable suitor for her reckless cousin George, to whom she was once engaged, and everyone in the book tells her she is wrong. The first Palliser novel; Trollope asks his title question and lets the reader answer it against him. This edition binds 58 plates after Frith, Millet, Richmond and Douglas, from The Derby Day to Peasant Girl Daydreaming, alongside both volumes of the novel.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Chapter I. Mr. Vavasor and His Daughter.
• Chapter II. Lady Macleod.
• Chapter III. John Grey, the Worthy Man.
• Chapter IV. George Vavasor, the Wild Man.
• Chapter V. The Balcony at Basle.
• Chapter VI. The Bridge over the Rhine.
• Chapter VII. Aunt Greenow.
• Chapter VIII. Mr. Cheesacre.
• Chapter IX. The Rivals.
• Chapter X. Nethercoats.
• Chapter XI. John Grey Goes to London.
• Chapter XII. Mr. George Vavasor at Home.
• Chapter XIII. Mr. Grimes Gets His Odd Money.
• Chapter XIV. Alice Vavasor Becomes Troubled.
• Chapter XV. Paramount Crescent.
• Chapter XVI. The Roebury Club.
• Chapter XVII. Edgehill.
• Chapter XVIII. Alice Vavasor’s Great Relations.
• Chapter XIX. Tribute from Oileymead.
• Chapter XX. Which Shall It Be?
• Chapter XXI. Alice Is Taught to Grow Upwards, Towards the Light.
• Chapter XXII. Dandy and Flirt.
• Chapter XXIII. Dinner at Matching Priory.
• Chapter XXIV. Three Politicians.
• Chapter XXV. In Which Much of the History of the Pallisers Is Told.
• Chapter XXVI. Lady Midlothian.
• Chapter XXVII. The Priory Ruins.
• Chapter XXVIII. Alice Leaves the Priory.
• Chapter XXIX. Burgo Fitzgerald.
• Chapter XXX. Containing a Love Letter.
• Chapter XXXI. Among the Fells.
• Chapter XXXII. Containing an Answer to the Love Letter.
• Chapter XXXIII. Monkshade.
• Chapter XXXIV. Mr. Vavasor Speaks to His Daughter.
• Chapter XXXV. Passion versus Prudence.
• Chapter XXXVI. John Grey Goes a Second Time to London.
• Chapter XXXVII. Mr. Tombe’s Advice.
• Chapter XXXVIII. The Inn at Shap.
• Chapter XXXIX. Mr. Cheesacre’s Hospitality.
• Chapter XL. Mrs. Greenow’s Little Dinner in the Close.
• Chapter XLI. A Noble Lord Dies.
• Chapter XLII. Parliament Meets.
• Chapter XLIII. Mrs. Marsham.
• Chapter XLIV. The Election for the Chelsea Districts.
• Chapter XLV. George Vavasor Takes His Seat.
• Chapter XLVI. A Love Gift.
• Chapter XLVII. Mr. Cheesacre’s Disappointment.
• Chapter XLVIII. Preparations for Lady Monk’s Party.
• Chapter XLIX. How Lady Glencora Went to Lady Monk’s Party.
• Chapter L. How Lady Glencora Came Back from Lady Monk’s Party.
• Chapter LI. Bold Speculations on Murder.
• Chapter LII. What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall.
• Chapter LIII. The Last Will of the Old Squire.
• Chapter LIV. Showing How Alice Was Punished.
• Chapter LV. The Will.
• Chapter LVI. Another Walk on the Fells.
• Chapter LVII. Showing How the Wild Beast Got Himself Back from the Mountains.
• Chapter LVIII. The Pallisers at Breakfast.
• Chapter LIX. The Duke of St. Bungay in Search of a Minister.
• Chapter LX. Alice Vavasor’s Name Gets into the Money Market.
• Chapter LXI. The Bills Are Made All Right.
• Chapter LXII. Going Abroad.
• Chapter LXIII. Mr. John Grey in Queen Anne Street.
• Chapter LXIV. The Rocks and Valleys.
• Chapter LXV. The First Kiss.
• Chapter LXVI. Lady Monk’s Plan.
• Chapter LXVII. The Last Kiss.
• Chapter LXVIII. From London to Baden.
• Chapter LXIX. From Baden to Lucerne.
• Chapter LXX. At Lucerne.
• Chapter LXXI. Showing How George Vavasor Received a Visit.
• Chapter LXXII. Showing How George Vavasor Paid a Visit.
• Chapter LXXIII. In Which Come Tidings of Great Moment to All Pallisers.
• Chapter LXXIV. Showing What Happened in the Churchyard.
• Chapter LXXV. Rouge et Noir.
• Chapter LXXVI. The Landlord’s Bill.
• Chapter LXXVII. The Travellers Return Home.
• Chapter LXXVIII. Mr. Cheesacre’s Fate.
• Chapter LXXIX. Diamonds Are Diamonds.
• Chapter LXXX. The Story Is Finished Within the Halls of the Duke of Omnium.
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