Nothing special about this escaped convict story except perhaps that it takes place on Bermuda

Another Trollope gem

Anthony Trollope never ceases to please and surprise me.
In this story, he speaks of a would-be rapist as a "poor wretch", with compassion, just as all his sympathy is with the poor woman who was nearly raped--he also speaks of the whites and the blacks of Bermuda without racist comments. And he reve

Small tale about Aaron Trow's escape from prinson on the Bermudas. A nice read that made curious about Trollope's other books.

A very short and regrettably rather forgettable story.

I found it a bit hard to follow, but then I've been pretty highly medicated with my cancer. Nevertheless, I think I understand what did not happen. As far as what did happen, well, I'm a little more unclear about that. I don't think I liked the ending particularly. I would have liked it to have been

It kept my interest, but was quite different from Trollope's other novels I have read.

A convict escapes and while hiding seeks food and money for passage to America. He roughs up a young woman who is living alone but engaged to the local clergy. The enraged clergy leads a group of men in a hunt for the convict. The clergy's actions were so unlike those one might expect. I got the imp