![]() ![]() ![]() Tregear finds a seat in Parliament, finally convincing the duke of his political and personal integrity. The duke pays his son’s debts and hints that marriage might help him to settle down, whereupon Silverbridge admits his involvement with an impoverished but well-born cousin of Tregear’s, Lady Mabel Grex, who is herself in love with Tregear, though she knows she can never afford to marry him. ![]() ![]() He becomes part-owner, with the unsavoury Major Tifto, of a racehorse waggishly named ‘The Prime Minister’, and loses £70,000 betting on its performances in the Derby and St Leger. Sent down from Oxford as a result of his wild behaviour, Silverbridge immerses himself in London club life, and becomes well known for his interest in horse racing. Meanwhile, the duke is anxious at the behaviour of his eldest son and heir, Lord Silverbridge. Glencora, the duchess of Omnium, encourages Frank Tregear, a young Conservative with little fortune, in his suit to her daughter Lady Mary Palliser, but after the death of the duchess Tregear has no one to plead his cause with the Liberal duke, and the match is broken off. The Duke’s Children is a novel by Anthony Trollope, published 1880, the last in the ‘Palliser’ series. ![]()
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