The
Passionate Friends

By H. G. WELLS

Author of "Marriage."

 

Decoration

 

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.

 


 

See p. 85 OUR KISSES WERE KISSES OF MOONLIGHT

"OUR KISSES WERE KISSES OF MOONLIGHT"         [See p. 85

 


CONTENTS

  •    CHAP.
  •       I.  Mr. Stratton to his Son
  •      II.  Boyhood
  •     III.  Intentions and the Lady Mary Christian
  •      IV.  The Marriage of the Lady Mary Christian
  •       V.  The War in South Africa
  •      VI.  Lady Mary Justin
  •     VII.  Beginning Again
  •    VIII.  This Swarming Business of Mankind
  •      IX.  The Spirit of the New World
  •       X.  Mary Writes
  •      XI.  The Last Meeting
  •     XII.  The Arraignment of Jealousy
  •    ADVERTISEMENTS

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THE
PASSIONATE FRIENDS

CHAPTER THE FIRST

Mr. Stratton to his Son

§ 1

I want very much to set down my thoughts and my experiences of life. Iwant to do so now that I have come to middle age and now that myattitudes are all defined and my personal drama worked out I feel thatthe toil of writing and reconsideration may help to clear and fix manythings that remain a little uncertain in my thoughts because they havenever been fully stated, and I want to discover any lurkinginconsistencies and unsuspected gaps. And I have a story. I have livedthrough things that have searched me. I want to tell that story as wellas I can while I am still a clear-headed and active man, and wh

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