Miss Mackenzie

Miss Mackenzie

by Anthony Trollope

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Table of Contents

Chapter I. The Mackenzie Family

Chapter II. Miss Mackenzie Goes to Littlebath

Chapter III. Miss Mackenzie’s First Acquaintances

Chapter IV. Miss Mackenzie Commences Her Career

Chapter V. Showing How Mr Rubb, Junior, Progressed at Littlebath

Chapter VI. Miss Mackenzie Goes to the Cedars

Chapter VII. Miss Mackenzie Leaves the Cedars

Chapter VIII. Mrs Tom Mackenzie’s Dinner Party

Chapter IX. Miss Mackenzie’s Philosophy

Chapter X. Plenary Absolutions

Chapter XI. Miss Todd Entertains Some Friends at Tea

Chapter XII. Mrs Stumfold Interferes

Chapter XIII. Mr Maguire’s Courtship

Chapter XIV. Tom Mackenzie’s Bed-Side

Chapter XV. The Tearing of the Verses

Chapter XVI. Lady Ball’s Grievance

Chapter XVII. Mr Slow’s Chambers

Chapter XVIII. Tribulation

Chapter XIX. Showing How Two of Miss Mackenzie’s Lovers Behaved

Chapter XX. Showing How the Third Lover Behaved

Chapter XXI. Mr Maguire Goes to London on Business

Chapter XXII. Still at the Cedars

Chapter XXIII. The Lodgings of Mrs Buggins, Née Protheroe

Chapter XXIV. The Little Story of the Lion and the Lamb

Chapter XXV. Lady Ball in Arundel Street

Chapter XXVI. Mrs Mackenzie of Cavendish Square

Chapter XXVII. The Negro Soldiers’ Orphan Bazaar

Chapter XXVIII. Showing How the Lion Was Stung by the Wasp

Chapter XXIX. A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed

Chapter XXX. Conclusion

Chapter I.
The Mackenzie Family

I fear I must trouble my reader with some few details as to the early life of Miss Mackenzie,—details which will be dull in the telling, but which shall be as short as I can make them. Her father, who had in early life come from Scotland to London, had spent all his days in the service of his country. He became a clerk in Somerset House at the age of sixteen, and was a clerk in Somerset House when he died at the age of sixty. Of him no more shall be said than that his wife had died before him, and that he, at dying, left behind him two sons and a daughter.

Thomas Mackenzie, the eldest of those two sons, had engaged himself in commercial pursuits—as his wife was accustomed to say when she spoke of her husband’s labours; or went into trade, and kept a shop, as was more generally asserted by those of the Mackenzie circle who were wont to speak their minds freely. The actual and unvarnished truth in the matter shall now be made known. He, with his partner, made and sold oilcloth, and was possessed of premises in the New Road, over which the names of “Rubb and Mackenzie” were posted in large letters. As you, my reader, might enter therein, and purchase a yard and a half of oilcloth, if you were so minded, I think that the free-spoken friends of the family were not far wrong. Mrs Thomas Mackenzie, however, declared that she was calumniated, and her husband cruelly injured; and she based her assertions on the fact that “Rubb and Mackenzie” had wholesale dealings, and that they sold their article to the trade, who re-sold it. Whether or no she was ill-treated in the matter, I will leave my readers to decide, having told them all that it is necessary for them to know, in order that a judgement may be formed.