In the first chapter, we encounter an old man who prefers his insect collection and his dog Nimrod to the company of his wife, who is anxiously awaiting the return of her son after 15 years abroad.
In the first chapter, we encounter an old man who prefers his insect collection and his dog Nimrod to the company of his wife, who is anxiously awaiting the return of her son after 15 years abroad. In the epilogue, we learn that Mr. Christian received his thousand pounds, while a church in Malthouse Yard selected a pastor "whose doctrine was rather higher" than that of the previous incumbent. Set in a village in North Loamshire, its title character is sentenced to four years in prison for manslaughter after being involved in a drunken riot, but Rufus Lyon's daughter marries him all the same. That young woman is also desired by Harold Transome, who scandalizes his mother by running for Parliament as a liberal. FTP, name this 1866 novel about a poor watch-maker who loves Esther Lyon, a work by George Eliot.
In the first chapter, we encounter an old man who prefers his insect collection and his dog Nimrod to the company of his wife, who is anxiously awaiting the return of her son after 15 years abroad.
{Felix Holt, the Radical}