The Amazing Marriage. Complete

The Amazing Marriage. Complete
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George Meredith. The Amazing Marriage. Complete

CHAPTER I. ENTER DAME GOSSIP AS CHORUS

CHAPTER II. MISTRESS GOSSIP TELLS OF THE ELOPEMENT OF THE COUNTESS OF CRESSETT WITH THE OLD BUCCANEER, AND OF CHARLES DUMP THE POSTILLION CONDUCTING

CHAPTER III. CONTINUATION OF THE INTRODUCTORY MEANDERINGS OF DAME GOSSIP, TOGETHER WITH HER SUDDEN EXTINCTION

CHAPTER IV. MORNING AND FAREWELL TO AN OLD HOME

CHAPTER V. A MOUNTAIN WALK IN MIST AND SUNSHINE

CHAPTER VI. THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER

CHAPTER VII. THE LADY’S LETTER

CHAPTER VIII. OF THE ENCOUNTER OF TWO STRANGE YOUNG MEN AND THEIR CONSORTING: IN WHICH THE MALE READER IS REQUESTED TO BEAR IN MIND WHAT WILD CREATURE HE WAS IN HIS YOUTH, WHILE THE FEMALE SHOULD MARVEL CREDULOUSLY

CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING THE BLACK GODDESS FORTUNE AND THE WORSHIP OF HER, TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION OF SOME OF HER VOTARIES

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

CHAPTER XX. STUDIES IN FOG, GOUT, AN OLD SEAMAN, A LOVELY SERPENT, AND THE MORAL EFFECTS THAT MAY COME OF A BORROWED SHIRT

CHAPTER XXI. IN WHICH WE HAVE FURTHER GLIMPSES OF THE WONDROUS MECHANISM OF OUR YOUNGER MAN

CHAPTER XXII. A RIGHT-MINDED GREAT LADY

CHAPTER XXIII. IN DAME GOSSIP’S VEIN

CHAPTER XXIV. A KIDNAPPING AND NO GREAT HARM

CHAPTER XXV. THE PHILOSOPHER MAN OF ACTION

CHAPTER XXVI. AFTER SOME FENCING THE DAME PASSES OUR GUARD

CHAPTER XXVII. WE DESCEND INTO A STEAMER’S ENGINE-ROOM

CHAPTER XXVIII. BY CONCESSIONS TO MISTRESS GOSSIP A FURTHER INTRUSION IS AVERTED

CHAPTER XXIX. CARINTHIA IN WALES

CHAPTER XXX. REBECCA WYTHAN

CHAPTER XXXI. WE HAVE AGAIN TO DEAL WITH THE EXAMPLES OF OUR YOUNGER MAN

CHAPTER XXXII. IN WHICH WE SEE CARINTHIA PUT IN PRACTICE ONE OF HER OLD FATHER’S LESSONS

CHAPTER XXXIII. A FRIGHTFUL DEBATE

CHAPTER XXXIV. A SURVEY OF THE RIDE OF THE WELSH CAVALIERS ESCORTING THE COUNTESS OF FLEETWOOD TO KENTISH ESSLEMONT

CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH CERTAIN CHANGES MAY BE DISCERNED

CHAPTER XXXVI. BELOW THE SURFACE AND ABOVE

CHAPTER XXXVII. BETWEEN CARINTHIA AND HER LORD

CHAPTER XXXVIII. A DIP INTO THE SPRING’S WATERS

CHAPTER XXXIX. THE RED WARNING FROM A SON OF VAPOUR

CHAPTER XL. RECORD OF MINOR INCIDENTS

CHAPTER XLI. IN WHICH THE FATES ARE SEEN AND A CHOICE OF THE REFUGES FROM THEM

CHAPTER XLII. THE RETARDED COURTSHIP

CHAPTER XLIII. ON THE ROAD TO THE ACT OF PENANCE

CHAPTER XLIV. BETWEEN THE EARL, THE COUNTESS AND HER BROTHER, AND OF A SILVER CROSS

CHAPTER XLV. CONTAINS A RECORD OF WHAT WAS FEARED, WHAT WAS HOPED, AND WHAT HAPPENED

CHAPTER XLVI. A CHAPTER OF UNDERCURRENTS AND SOME SURFACE FLASHES

CHAPTER XLVII. THE LAST: WITH A CONCLUDING WORD BY THE DAME

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THEM, AND OF A GREAT COUNTY FAMILY

Their numbers were swelled by quite a host going along, for heavy bets were on the affair, dozens having backed Kirby; and it must have appeared serious to them, with the lady in custody, and constables on the look-out, and Kirby and his men nowhere in sight. They expected an onslaught at some point of the procession, and it may be believed they wished it, if only that they might see something for their money. A beautiful bright moonlight night it happened to be. Arm in arm among them were Lord Pitscrew and Russett, Earl of Fleetwood, a great friend of Kirby’s; for it was a device of the Old Buccaneer’s that helped the earl to win the great Welsh heiress who made him, even before he took to hoarding and buying,—one of the wealthiest noblemen in England; but she was crazed by her marriage or the wild scenes leading to it; she never presented herself in society. She would sit on the top of Estlemont towers—as they formerly spelt it—all day and half the night in midwinter, often, looking for the mountains down in her native West country, covered with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a tall hat of her Welsh women-folk; and she died of it, leaving a son in her likeness, of whom you will hear. Lord Fleetwood had lost none of his faith in Kirby, and went on booking bets giving him huge odds, thousands!

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‘They promise falsely sometimes. That’s no reason why we should reject the consolation when we can’t get what we want, my little sister.’

‘I would not be denied.’

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