THE THREE CLERKS

BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE



WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. TEIGNMOUTH SHORE



ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Born London, April 24, 1815
Died London, December 6, 1882



INTRODUCTION

There is the proper mood and the just environment for the reading
as well as for the writing of works of fiction, and there can be
no better place for the enjoying of a novel by Anthony Trollope
than under a tree in Kensington Gardens of a summer day. Under a
tree in the avenue that reaches down from the Round Pond to the
Long Water. There, perhaps more than anywhere else, lingers the
early Victorian atmosphere. As we sit beneath our tree, we see in
the distance the dun, red-brick walls of Kensington Palace, where
one night Princess Victoria was awakened to hear that she was
Queen; there in quaint, hideously ugly Victorian rooms are to be
seen Victorian dolls and other playthings; the whole environment