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12                                   Alice Schreyer

fiction, and had argued that he could not expose his young daugh¬
ters to novels in which issues raised by the flirtation between
Glcncora Palliser and Burgo Fitzgerald were liable to appear.
Glencora had been briefly introduced towards the end of The
 

Burgo Fitzgerald is upset at hearing that Plantagenet Palliser is coming for

a visit without Lady Glencora: an illustration bv H. K. Browne for

Ca7i You Forgive Her?

Small House at Allington (1864) as "the great heiress of the day,"
Glencora MacCluskie, whose imprudent love for the worthless
fortune-hunter Burgo Fitzgerald was stymied by interfering eld¬
ers. A contemplated flight by Plantagenet Palliser with Lady
Dumbello (nee Griselda Grantly, the daughter of the Archdea¬
con) had also been foiled in the course of this novel—more by the
lady's cold-hearted passivity than by the gentleman's good sense
or moral scruples-to the relief of Palliser's uncle, the old Duke of
Omnium. In concluding the narrative of this sub-plot, Trollope
informs "those who are interested in Mr. Palliser's fortunes" that
"before the close of that London season" he had prudently mar-
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