


Produced by David Widger





THE AMAZING MARRIAGE


By George Meredith


1895




CONTENTS:

  BOOK 1.
  I.        ENTER DAME GOSSIP AS CHORUS
  II.       MISTRESS GOSSIP TELLS OF THE ELOPEMENT OF THE COUNTESS OF
            CRESSETT WITH THE OLD BUCCANEER, AND OF CHARLES DUMP THE
            POSTILLION CONDUCTING THEM, AND OF A GREAT COUNTY FAMILY
  III.      CONTINUATION OF THE INTRODUCTORY MEANDERINGS OF DAME GOSSIP,
            TOGETHER WITH HER SUDDEN EXTINCTION
  IV.       MORNING AND FAREWELL TO AN OLD HOME
  V.        A MOUNTAIN WALK IN MIST AND SUNSHINE
  VI.       THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
  VII.      THE LADY'S LETTER
  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
  IX.       CONCERNING THE BLACK GODDESS FORTUNE AND THE WORSHIP OF HER,
            TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION OF SOME OF HER VOTARIES

  BOOK 2.
  X.        SMALL CAUSES
  XI.       THE PRISONER OF HIS WORD
  XII.      HENRIETTA'S LETTER TREATING OF THE GREAT EVENT
  XIII.     AN IRRUPTION OF MISTRESS GOSSIP IN BREACH OF THE CONVENTION
  XIV.      A PENDANT OF THE FOREGOING
  XV.       OPENING STAGE OF THE HONEYMOON
  XVI.      IN WHICH THE BRIDE FROM FOREIGN PARTS IS GIVEN A TASTE OF OLD
            ENGLAND
  XVII.     RECORDS A SHADOW CONTEST CLOSE ON THE FOREGOING
  XVIII.    DOWN WHITECHAPEL WAY
  XIX.      THE GIRL MADGE

  BOOK 3.
  XX.       STUDIES IN FOG, GOUT, AN OLD SEAMAN, A LOVELY SERPENT, AND THE
            MORAL EFFECTS THAT MAY COME OF A BORROWED SHIRT
  XXI.      IN WHICH WE HAVE FURTHER GLIMPSES OF THE WONDROUS MECHANISM OF
            OUR YOUNGER MAN
  XXII.     A RIGHT-MINDED GREAT LADY
  XXIII.    IN DAME GOSSIP'S VEIN
  XXIV.     A KIDNAPPING AND NO GREAT HARM
  XXV.      THE PHILOSOPHER MAN OF ACTION
  XXVI.     AFTER SOME FENCING THE DAME PASSES OUR GUARD
  XXVII.    WE DESCEND INTO A STEAMER'S ENGINE-ROOM
  XXVIII.   BY CONCESSIONS TO MISTRESS GOSSIP A FURTHER INTRUSION IS
            AVERTED

  BOOK 4.
  XXIX.     CARINTHIA IN WALES
  XXX.      REBECCA WYTHAN
  XXXI.     WE HAVE AGAIN TO DEAL WITH THE EXAMPLES OF OUR YOUNGER MAN
  XXXII.    IN WHICH WE SEE CARINTHIA PUT IN PRACTICE ONE OF HER