

E-text prepared by Joyce McDonald, Christine Bell, and Marc D'Hooghe
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THE DOCTOR'S WIFE

A Novel

By the Author of
"Lady Audley's Secret," "Aurora Floyd"
Etc. Etc. Etc.







London
John and Robert Maxwell
Milton House, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street



CONTENTS.

    I. A young man from the country
    II. A sensation author
    III. Isabel
    IV. The end of George Gilbert's holiday
    V. George at home
    VI. Too much alone
    VII. On the bridge
    VIII. About poor Joe Tillet's young wife
    IX. Miss Sleaford's engagement
    X. A bad beginning
    XI. "She only said,'my life is weary!'"
    XII. Something like a birthday
    XIII. "Oh, my cousin, shallow-hearted!"
    XIV. Under Lord Thurston's oak
    XV. Roland says, "Amen"
    XVI. Mr. Lansdell relates an adventure
    XVII. The first warning
    XVIII. The second warning
    XIX. What might have been!
    XX. "Oceans should divide us!"
    XXI. "Once more the gate behind me falls"
    XXII. "My love's a noble madness"
    XXIII. A little cloud
    XXIV. Lady Gwendoline does her duty
    XXV. "For love himself took part against himself"
    XXVI. A popular preacher
    XXVII. "And now I live, and now my life is done!"
    XXVIII. Trying to be good.
    XXIX. The first whisper of the