E-text prepared by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. MISS MACKENZIE by ANTHONY TROLLOPE First published in book form in 1865 CONTENTS I. The Mackenzie Family II. Miss Mackenzie Goes to Littlebath III. Miss Mackenzie's First Acquaintances IV. Miss Mackenzie Commences Her Career V. Showing How Mr Rubb, Junior, Progressed at Littlebath VI. Miss Mackenzie Goes to the Cedars VII. Miss Mackenzie Leaves the Cedars VIII. Mrs Tom Mackenzie's Dinner Party IX. Miss Mackenzie's Philosophy X. Plenary Absolutions XI. Miss Todd Entertains Some Friends at Tea XII. Mrs Stumfold Interferes XIII. Mr Maguire's Courtship XIV. Tom Mackenzie's Bed-Side XV. The Tearing of the Verses XVI. Lady Ball's Grievance XVII. Mr Slow's Chambers XVIII. Tribulation XIX. Showing How Two of Miss Mackenzie's Lovers Behaved XX. Showing How the Third Lover Behaved XXI. Mr Maguire Goes to London on Business XXII. Still at the Cedars XXIII. The Lodgings of Mrs Buggins, Nee Protheroe XXIV. The Little Story of the Lion and the Lamb XXV. Lady Ball in Arundel Street XXVI. Mrs Mackenzie of Cavendish Square XXVII. The Negro Soldiers' Orphan Bazaar XXVIII. Showing How the Lion Was Stung by the Wasp XXIX. A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed XXX. Conclusion CHAPTER I The Mackenzie Family I fear I must trouble my reader with some few details as to the early life of Miss Mackenzie,--details which will be dull in the telling, but which shall be as short as I can make them. Her father, who had in early life come from Scotland to London, had spent all his days in the service of his country. He became a clerk in Somerset House at the age of sixteen, and was a clerk in Somerset House when he died at the age of sixty. Of him no more shall be said than that his wife had died before him, and that he, at dying, left behind him two sons and a daughter.