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Passionate Friends, by Herbert George Wells
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Title: The Passionate Friends
Author: Herbert George Wells
Release Date: October 26, 2009 [EBook #30340]
Language: English
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The Passionate Friends
By H. G. WELLS
Author of "Marriage."
[Illustration]
WITH FRONTISPIECE
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
114-120 East Twenty-third Street - - New York
PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HARPER & BROTHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1913
TO L. E. N. S.
[Illustration: "OUR KISSES WERE KISSES OF MOONLIGHT" See p. 85]
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. MR. STRATTON TO HIS SON 1
II. BOYHOOD 14
III. INTENTIONS AND THE LADY MARY CHRISTIAN 40
IV. THE MARRIAGE OF THE LADY MARY CHRISTIAN 73
V. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA 102
VI. LADY MARY JUSTIN 132
VII. BEGINNING AGAIN 197
VIII. THIS SWARMING BUSINESS OF MANKIND 220
IX. THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW WORLD 246
X. MARY WRITES 280
XI. THE LAST MEETING 318
XII. THE ARRAIGN