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Chapter 47
The Dean Elect

Rumour
Trollope says that "Rumour, when she has contrived to sound the first note on her trumpet, soon makes a loud peal audible enough."  This is an example of the personification used by classical authors such as Homer wherein a thing (victory or passion) that normally has no agency of its own is attributed with human-like or god-like qualities.  [TH]

To have the cup so near his lips
See commentary on Barchester Towers Chapter 24.  When Mr. Harding tells the archdeacon that he is intent upon declining a proposed promotion to dean, Trollope says that the archdeacon couldn't stand "to have the cup so near his lips and to loose the drinking of it."  The archdeacon would have desired to see Mr. Harding become the new dean but is disappointed after coming so close to having an ally in the deanery.
www.bartleby.com/81/15519.html  [TH]

Chapter 48
Miss Thorne Shows Her Talent at Match-Making

Man-worshipping
Again Trollope puts an object of Eleanor's affection into the position of a pagan god (i.e. Greco-Roman).  Instead of her son, it is this time Mr. Arabin to whom she has just become engaged. For Eleanor's baby worship, see Barchester Towers Chapter 16. [JC]

Chapter 49
The Belzebub Colt

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