THE AMAZING MARRIAGE

By George Meredith

1895

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.   ENTER DAME GOSSIP AS CHORUS

CHAPTER II.   MISTRESS GOSSIP TELLS OF THE ELOPEMENT OF THE COUNTESS OF CRESSETT WITH THE OLD BUCCANEER

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

CHAPTER IX.   CONCERNING THE BLACK GODDESS FORTUNE AND THE WORSHIP OF HER

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, AND A LOVELY SERPENT

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

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