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Title: The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

Author: H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN

by

H. G. WELLS

New York
The Macmillan Company
1914

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1914,
By H. G. Wells.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1914.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCES LADY HARMAN 1

II. THE PERSONALITY OF SIR ISAAC 30

III. LADY HARMAN AT HOME 51

IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF LADY HARMAN 83

V. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SIR ISAAC 98

VI. THE ADVENTUROUS AFTERNOON 143

VII. LADY HARMAN LEARNS ABOUT HERSELF 198

VIII. SIR ISAAC AS PETRUCHIO 231

IX. MR. BRUMLEY IS TROUBLED BY DIFFICULT IDEAS 287

X. LADY HARMAN COMES OUT 343

XI. THE LAST CRISIS 427

XII. LOVE AND A SERIOUS LADY 496

THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN

CHAPTER THE FIRST

INTRODUCES LADY HARMAN

Sec.1

The motor-car entered a little white gate, came to a porch under a thick
wig of jasmine, and stopped. The chauffeur indicated by a movement of
the head that this at last was it. A tall young woman with a big soft
mouth, great masses of blue-black hair on either side of a broad, low
forehead, and eyes of so dark a brown you might have thought them black,
drooped forward and surveyed the house with a mixture of keen
appreciation and that gentle apprehension which is the shadow of desire
in unassuming natures....