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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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...GE By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ay for; and went, as you can imagine, at such a tearing gallop, that those Grand Highnesses had to hold on for their lives and lost their hats along t... ...ombustion.’ Kirby had the wildest way of talking when he was not issu- ing orders under fire, best understood by sailors. I give it you as it stands h... ...rriage and a plain dumpling, for their dinner, with ale and port wine, the merit of which he swore to; and he became so elate, that after the cloth wa... ...ness and our pleasant little hopes and excitements; the courtships and the crosses and the scandals, the tea-parties and the dances, and how the morni... ...a year as a private in the regiment of Hussars, called, my papers tell me, Liechtenstein, and what with his good con- duct and the help of Kirby’s fri... ...n folk, as far as they could journey afoot, was over the two halves of the Principality, to give the countess a reputable and gallant body-guard. Lond...