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The Fixed Period, by Anthony Trollope
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Title: The Fixed Period
Author: Anthony Trollope
Release Date: October 27, 2008 [eBook #27067]
Language: English
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THE FIXED PERIOD
by
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
First published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1882.
CONTENTS
VOLUME I.
I. INTRODUCTION.
II. GABRIEL CRASWELLER.
III. THE FIRST BREAK-DOWN.
IV. JACK NEVERBEND.
V. THE CRICKET-MATCH.
VI. THE COLLEGE.
VOLUME II.
VII. COLUMBUS AND GALILEO.
VIII. THE "JOHN BRIGHT."
IX. THE NEW GOVERNOR.
X. THE TOWN-HALL.
XI. FAREWELL!
XII. OUR VOYAGE TO ENGLAND.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
It may be doubted whether a brighter, more prosperous, and specially a more orderly colony than Britannula was ever settled by British colonists. But it had its period of separation from the mother country, though never of rebellion,--like its elder sister New Zealand. Indeed, in that respect it simply fo