The Amazing Marriage

About this eBook

Author

Meredith, George, 1828-1909

Title

The Amazing Marriage — Complete

Credits

Produced by David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Marriage -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

4488

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4488

Release Date

November 5, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE AMAZING MARRIAGE
2. 2.By George Meredith — 1895
3. 3.CHAPTER I. ENTER DAME GOSSIP AS CHORUS
4. 4.CHAPTER II. MISTRESS GOSSIP TELLS OF THE ELOPEMENT OF THE COUNTESS OF CRESSETT WITH THE OLD BUCCANEER, AND OF CHARLES DUMP THE POSTILLION CONDUCTING
5. 5.CHAPTER III. CONTINUATION OF THE INTRODUCTORY MEANDERINGS OF DAME GOSSIP, TOGETHER WITH HER SUDDEN EXTINCTION
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. MORNING AND FAREWELL TO AN OLD HOME
7. 7.CHAPTER V. A MOUNTAIN WALK IN MIST AND SUNSHINE
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. THE LADY’S LETTER
10. 10.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
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING THE BLACK GODDESS FORTUNE AND THE WORSHIP OF HER, TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION OF SOME OF HER VOTARIES
12. 12.CHAPTER X. SMALL CAUSES
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. THE PRISONER OF HIS WORD
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. HENRIETTA’S LETTER TREATING OF THE GREAT EVENT
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. AN IRRUPTION. OF MISTRESS GOSSIP IN BREACH OF THE CONVENTION
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. A PENDANT OF THE FOREGOING
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. OPENING STAGE OF THE HONEYMOON
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH THE BRIDE FROM FOREIGN PARTS IS GIVEN A TASTE OF OLD ENGLAND
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. RECORDS A SHADOW CONTEST CLOSE ON THE FOREGOING
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. DOWN WHITECHAPEL WAY
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. THE GIRL MADGE
22. 22.CHAPTER XX. STUDIES IN FOG, GOUT, AN OLD SEAMAN, A LOVELY SERPENT, AND THE MORAL EFFECTS THAT MAY COME OF A BORROWED SHIRT
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. IN WHICH WE HAVE FURTHER GLIMPSES OF THE WONDROUS MECHANISM OF OUR YOUNGER MAN
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. A RIGHT-MINDED GREAT LADY
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. IN DAME GOSSIP’S VEIN — Right soon the London pot began to bubble. There was a marriage.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. A KIDNAPPING AND NO GREAT HARM
27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. THE PHILOSOPHER MAN OF ACTION
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI. AFTER SOME FENCING THE DAME PASSES OUR GUARD
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII. WE DESCEND INTO A STEAMER’S ENGINE-ROOM
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII. BY CONCESSIONS TO MISTRESS GOSSIP A FURTHER INTRUSION IS AVERTED — Livia welcomed him, with commiserating inquiry behind her languid eyelids. ‘You have all the latest?’ it said.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX. CARINTHIA IN WALES
32. 32.CHAPTER XXX. REBECCA WYTHAN
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXI. WE HAVE AGAIN TO DEAL WITH THE EXAMPLES OF OUR YOUNGER MAN
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXII. IN WHICH WE SEE CARINTHIA PUT IN PRACTICE ONE OF HER OLD FATHER’S LESSONS
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXIII. A FRIGHTFUL DEBATE
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIV. A SURVEY OF THE RIDE OF THE WELSH CAVALIERS ESCORTING THE COUNTESS OF FLEETWOOD TO KENTISH ESSLEMONT
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH CERTAIN CHANGES MAY BE DISCERNED
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVI. BELOW THE SURFACE AND ABOVE
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVII. BETWEEN CARINTHIA AND HER LORD
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVIII. A DIP INTO THE SPRING’S WATERS
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIX. THE RED WARNING FROM A SON OF VAPOUR
42. 42.CHAPTER XL. RECORD OF MINOR INCIDENTS
43. 43.CHAPTER XLI. IN WHICH THE FATES ARE SEEN AND A CHOICE OF THE REFUGES FROM THEM
44. 44.CHAPTER XLII. THE RETARDED COURTSHIP
45. 45.CHAPTER XLIII. ON THE ROAD TO THE ACT OF PENANCE
46. 46.CHAPTER XLIV. BETWEEN THE EARL, THE COUNTESS AND HER BROTHER, AND OF A SILVER CROSS — Carinthia was pleased by hearing Lord Fleetwood say to her: ‘Your Madge and my Gower are waiting to have the day named for them.’
47. 47.CHAPTER XLV. CONTAINS A RECORD OF WHAT WAS FEARED, WHAT WAS HOPED, AND WHAT HAPPENED
48. 48.CHAPTER XLVI. A CHAPTER OF UNDERCURRENTS AND SOME SURFACE FLASHES
49. 49.CHAPTER XLVII. THE LAST: WITH A CONCLUDING WORD BY THE DAME

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