The Rev. Jeffrey Wortle, D.D., was a man much esteemed by others, -and by himself. He combined two professions, in both of which he had been successful, -had been, and continued to be, at the time in which we speak of him. I will introduce him to the reader in the present tense as Rector of Bowick, and proprietor and head-master of the school established in the village of that nam
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The Rev. Jeffrey Wortle, D.D., was a man much esteemed by others, -and by himself. He combined two professions, in both of which he had been successful, -had been, and continued to be, at the time in which we speak of him. I will introduce him to the reader in the present tense as Rector of Bowick, and proprietor and head-master of the school established in the village of that nam
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Trollope gets in his digs at Victorian hypocrisy in more of a forthright manner than his lengthier novels. Both Dr. Wortle and Mr. Peacocke stick to their guns in not getting in a tizzy over the "technicality" of the bigamous marriage, until the situation can be properly sorted out. I wasn't as wild about the romantic sub-plot as others, finding it a distracting method of filling out the book.
