The consequences of this prosecution, and sometimes persecution, reverberates through the entire community and we are able to see the hearts of so many in how they react to Crawley’s misfortunes. There is sickness of the body, and sickness of the heart, and sickness of the spirit -and then there is sickness of the mind, the worst of all.” Perhaps the saddest part is that Crawley is made to doubt himself. His own confusion about both his acquisition of the check and as to how he has landed it such a strait, being a very honest and upstanding man who has sacrificed everything for the good of his parish. Accused of stealing a check and unable to explain his possession of it, he is brought before the Magistrates and bound over for trial. We take up all the characters we met throughout the series and feel a great sense of closure as all the plot lines are brought to a close.īut this book is not only about revisiting the stories we already know it is also about another clergyman, Mr. Harding has settled in his old age and where the girls, now women, have landed. In this last book of the series, we see how Mr. Harding, being mistreated and purposefully misunderstood, met his extended family, as his girls settled their lives with the men who were to be their husbands. We began in The Warden with a good man, in Mr. How masterfully Trollope brought this series full cycle.
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