The Amazing Marriage. Volume 2

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George Meredith. The Amazing Marriage. Volume 2

CHAPTER X. SMALL CAUSES

CHAPTER XI. THE PRISONER OF HIS WORD

CHAPTER XII. HENRIETTA'S LETTER TREATING OF THE GREAT EVENT

CHAPTER XIII. AN IRRUPTION. OF MISTRESS GOSSIP IN BREACH OF THE CONVENTION

CHAPTER XIV. A PENDANT OF THE FOREGOING

CHAPTER XV. OPENING STAGE OF THE HONEYMOON

CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH THE BRIDE FROM FOREIGN PARTS IS GIVEN A TASTE OF OLD ENGLAND

CHAPTER XVII. RECORDS A SHADOW CONTEST CLOSE ON THE FOREGOING

CHAPTER XVIII. DOWN WHITECHAPEL WAY

CHAPTER XIX. THE GIRL MADGE

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Nothing to rouse alarm was discovered at Carlsruhe. Livia's fair cousin was there with the red-haired gaunt girl of the mountains; and it was frankly stated by Henrietta, that she had accompanied the girl a certain distance along the Strasburg road, for her to see the last of her brother Chillon on his way to England. Livia was not the woman to push inquiries. On that subject, she merely said, as soon as they were alone together:

'You seem to have had the lion's share of the parting.'

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His dark lady's eyes were kindly overlooking, like the heavens. Her fair cousin, to whom he bowed, awakened him to a perception of the spectacle causing the slight, quick arrest of her look, in an astonishment not unlike the hiccup in speech, while her act of courtesy proceeded. At once he was conscious of the price he paid for respectability, and saw the Teuton skin on the slim Cambrian, baggy at shoulders, baggy at seat, pinched at the knees, short at the heels, showing outrageously every spot where he ought to have been bigger or smaller. How accept or how reject the invitation to drive in such company to Baden!

'You're decided enough, sir, in your play, they tell me,' the vindictive little baronet commented on his hesitation, and Woodseer sprang to the proffered vacant place. But he had to speak of his fly waiting for him at the steps of a certain hotel.

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