Crossword-Solution: BARSET 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Richard was not unaccustomed to cheques in payment of his work, and he could see nothing amiss with the baronet's: it was made payable to bearer, and not crossed: Alice could take it to the bank and get the money for it! The next moment, however, he noted that it was payable at a branch-bank in the town of Barset, near Mortgrange.

Richard's hands were out to lay hold on his father, when happily he remembered that he had not given him back the former cheque, and Barset was quite within reach of his grandfather's pony! He turned and made for the door.

They reached the town in safety, and Richard cashed his cheque--the more easily that Simon, a well-known man in Barset, was seen waiting for him in his trap outside.

And I find the Last Chronicle of _Barset_, _Lothair_, and _Silas Marner_ as fresh as they were a quarter of a century ago.

Crawley, in _The Last Chronicle of Barset_; and if "dogged" could make a great novelist, Anthony Trollope was pre-eminently "dogged." But a great novelist needs other gifts.