... days sat easily on thejaunty shoulders of the happy squire, the future expensive honours of the family were thrown on the coming generation. ()³⁹Here again Trollope critiques imprudence and ... feminist critics onhow ‘‘class conflict comes to be represented as a matter of sexualmisconduct and a family scandal,’’²⁸ this chapter of the novel is usuallyanalyzed for its representation of Margaret’s ... matter of unskilled incom-petence. Commenting on Boucher’s suicide, and on the inability of his family to raise itself up thereafter from depression and sloth, Mr. Haleremarks that the Bouchers...