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The narrative follows Nevil Beauchamp from his early naval leave into a complex maturation that interweaves romantic entanglements, family obligations, and electoral politics. Episodes range from sea voyages and continental travel to local canvassing and parliamentary intrigue, exposing rivalries with an assailing physician and factional aristocratic interests. Romantic ambitions and public aspirations repeatedly conflict, prompting moral reckonings, apologies, and acts of penance. The work balances character study and social satire, treating the press, panic, and baronial authority with ironic scrutiny, and culminates in personal consequences that test honor, constancy, and the costs of ambition.

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Title: Beauchamp's Career — Complete

Author: George Meredith

Release date: November 4, 2004 [eBook #4460]
Most recently updated: January 7, 2021

Language: English

Credits: David Widger

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Beauchamp’s Career

by George Meredith


Contents

CHAPTER I. THE CHAMPION OF HIS COUNTRY
CHAPTER II. UNCLE, NEPHEW, AND ANOTHER
CHAPTER III. CONTAINS BARONIAL VIEWS OF THE PRESENT TIME
CHAPTER IV. A GLIMPSE OF NEVIL IN ACTION
CHAPTER V. RENÉE
CHAPTER VI. LOVE IN VENICE
CHAPTER VII. AN AWAKENING FOR BOTH
CHAPTER VIII. A NIGHT ON THE ADRIATIC
CHAPTER IX. MORNING AT SEA UNDER THE ALPS
CHAPTER X. A SINGULAR COUNCIL
CHAPTER XI. CAPTAIN BASKELETT
CHAPTER XII. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE INFAMOUS DR. SHRAPNEL
CHAPTER XIII. A SUPERFINE CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER XIV. THE LEADING ARTICLE AND MR. TIMOTHY TURBOT
CHAPTER XV. CECILIA HALKETT
CHAPTER XVI. A PARTIAL DISPLAY OF BEAUCHAMP IN HIS COLOURS
CHAPTER XVII. HIS FRIEND AND FOE
CHAPTER XVIII. CONCERNING THE ACT OF CANVASSING
CHAPTER XIX. LORD PALMET, AND CERTAIN ELECTORS OF BEVISHAM
CHAPTER XX. A DAY AT ITCHINCOPE
CHAPTER XXI. THE QUESTION AS TO THE EXAMINATION OF THE WHIGS, AND THE FINE BLOW STRUCK BY MR. EVERARD ROMFREY
CHAPTER XXII. THE DRIVE INTO BEVISHAM
CHAPTER XXIII. TOURDESTELLE
CHAPTER XXIV. HIS HOLIDAY
CHAPTER XXV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BOAT
CHAPTER XXVI. MR. BLACKBURN TUCKHAM
CHAPTER XXVII. A SHORT SIDELOOK AT THE ELECTION
CHAPTER XXVIII. TOUCHING A YOUNG LADY’S HEART AND HER INTELLECT
CHAPTER XXIX. THE EPISTLE OF DR. SHRAPNEL TO COMMANDER BEAUCHAMP
CHAPTER XXX. THE BAITING OF DR. SHRAPNEL
CHAPTER XXXI. SHOWING A CHIVALROUS GENTLEMAN SET IN MOTION
CHAPTER XXXII. AN EFFORT TO CONQUER CECILIA IN BEAUCHAMP’S FASHION
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE FIRST ENCOUNTER AT STEYNHAM
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE FACE OF RENÉE
CHAPTER XXXV. THE RIDE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
CHAPTER XXXVI. PURSUIT OF THE APOLOGY OF MR. ROMFREY TO DR. SHRAPNEL
CHAPTER XXXVII. CECILIA CONQUERED
CHAPTER XXXVIII. LORD AVONLEY
CHAPTER XXXIX. BETWEEN BEAUCHAMP AND CECILIA
CHAPTER XL. A TRIAL OF HIM
CHAPTER XLI. A LAME VICTORY
CHAPTER XLII. THE TWO PASSIONS
CHAPTER XLIII. THE EARL OF ROMFREY AND THE COUNTESS
CHAPTER XLIV. THE NEPHEWS OF THE EARL, AND ANOTHER EXHIBITION OF THE TWO PASSIONS IN BEAUCHAMP
CHAPTER XLV. A LITTLE PLOT AGAINST CECILIA
CHAPTER XLVI. AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN FORESEEN
CHAPTER XLVII. THE REFUSAL OF HIM
CHAPTER XLVIII. OF THE TRIAL AWAITING THE EARL OF ROMFREY
CHAPTER XLIX. A FABRIC OF BARONIAL DESPOTISM CRUMBLES
CHAPTER L. AT THE COTTAGE ON THE COMMON
CHAPTER LI. IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER LII. QUESTION OF A PILGRIMAGE AND AN ACT OF PENANCE
CHAPTER LIII. THE APOLOGY TO DR. SHRAPNEL
CHAPTER LIV. THE FRUITS OF THE APOLOGY
CHAPTER LV. WITHOUT LOVE
CHAPTER LVI. THE LAST OF NEVIL BEAUCHAMP