Produced by Delphine Lettau, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) STANDARD NOVELS. No. LXXVIII. "No kind of literature is so generally attractive as Fiction. Pictures of life and manners, and Stories of adventure, are more eagerly received by the many than graver productions, however important these latter may be. APULEIUS is better remembered by his fable of Cupid and Psyche than by his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron of BOCCACCIO has outlived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works of that author." THE VICAR OF WREXHILL. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. BY FRANCES TROLLOPE AUTHOR OF "JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW," "DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS," "ONE FAULT," ETC. Les bons et vrais dévots qu'on doit suivre à la trace Ne sont pas ceux aussí qui font taut de grimace. Hé, quoi!... vous ne ferez nulle distinction Entre l'hypocrisie et la dévotion? Vous les voulez traiter d'un semblable langage, Et rendre même honneur au masque qu'au visage? MOLIÈRE. NEW EDITION, REVISED. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET; BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; J. CUMMING, DUBLIN. 1840. LONDON: Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, New-Street-Square. [Illustration: "A sort of frozen blandishment smoothed the proud face of the Vicar as he stood with his lady beside him, to receive the sycophants."] THE VICAR OF WREXHILL. [Illustration: "On the turf before the bench and with their backs towards the spot where Rosalind and Henrietta stood, knelt the Vicar and Fanny."] CHAPTER I. THE VILLAGE OF WREXHILL.--THE MOWBRAY FAMILY.--A BIRTHDAY.