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Mary Roberts Rinehart. When a Man Marries
When a Man Marries
Table of Contents
Chapter I. AT LEAST I MEANT WELL
Chapter II. THE WAY IT BEGAN
Chapter III. I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN IT
Chapter IV. THE DOOR WAS CLOSED
Chapter V. FROM THE TREE OF LOVE
Chapter VI. A MIGHTY POOR JOKE
Chapter VII. WE MAKE AN OMELET
Chapter VIII. CORRESPONDENTS’ DEPARTMENT
Chapter IX. FLANNIGAN’S FIND
Chapter X. ON THE STAIRS
Chapter XI. I MAKE A DISCOVERY
Chapter XII. THE ROOF GARDEN
Chapter XIII. HE DOES NOT DENY IT
Chapter XIV. ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE
Chapter XV. SUSPICION AND DISCORD
Chapter XVI. I FACE FLANNIGAN
Chapter XVII. A CLASH AND A KISS
Chapter XVIII. IT’S ALL MY FAULT
Chapter XIX. THE HARBISON MAN
Chapter XX. BREAKING OUT IN A NEW PLACE
Chapter XXI. A BAR OF SOAP
Chapter XXII. IT WAS DELIRIUM
Chapter XXIII. COMING
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Published by Good Press, 2019
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I refused. I stood like a rock while the storm surged around me and beat over me. I must say for Jim that he was merely pathetic. He said that my happiness was first; that he would not give me an uncomfortable minute for anything on earth; and that Bella had been perfectly right to leave him, because he was a sinking ship, and deserved to be turned out penniless into the world. After which mixed figure, he poured himself something to drink, and his hands were shaking.
Dal and Anne stood on each side of him and patted him on the shoulders and glared across at me. I felt that if I was a rock, Jim’s ship had struck on me and was sinking, as he said, because of me. I began to crumble.
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