COMEDIES OF COURTSHIP

By Anthony Hope

1894

            “It is a familiar fact that the intensity of a passion varies             with the proximity of the appropriate object.”               Mr. Leslie Stephen, ‘Science of Ethics’            “How the devil is it that fresh features             Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?”               Lord Byron, ‘Don Juan’



NOTE

“The Wheel of Love,” published in Scribner’s Magazine during the past year, and “The Lady of the Pool,” both protected by American copyright, are here printed for the first time in book form. The four other stories appeared without their author’s consent or knowledge, with their titles changed beyond recognition, and combined with other unauthorized material, in a small volume printed by an American firm. They are here given for the first time in their proper form and by my authority.

Anthony Hope.






CONTENTS

THE WHEEL OF LOVE

CHAPTER I. — THE VIRTUOUS HYPOCRITES

CHAPTER II. — SYMPATHY IN SORROW

CHAPTER III. — A PROVIDENTIAL DISCLOSURE

CHAPTER IV. — THE TALE OF A POSTMARK

CHAPTER V. — A SECOND EDITION

CHAPTER VI. — A MAN WITH A THEORY

CHAPTER VII. — THE SIGHTS OF AVIGNON

CHAPTER VIII. — MR. AND MRS. ASHFORTH (1)

CHAPTER IX. — MR. AND MRS. ASHFORTH (2)

CHAPTER X. — MR. AND NOT MRS. ASHFORTH

CHAPTER XI. — A DYNAMITE OUTRAGE

CHAPTER XII. — ANOTHER!

CHAPTER XIII. — FAITHFUL TO DEATH


THE LADY OF THE POOL

CHAPTER I. — A FIRM BELIEVER

CHAPTER II. — MISS WALLACE’S FRIEND

CHAPTER III. — ALL NONSENSE

CHAPTER IV. — A CATASTROPHE AT THE POOL

CHAPTER V. — AN UNFORESEEN CASE

CHAPTER VI. — THERE WAS SOMEBODY

CHAPTER VII. — THE INEVITABLE MEETING

CHAPTER VIII. — THE MORAL OF IT

CHAPTER IX. — TWO MEN OF SPIRIT

CHAPTER X. — THE INCARNATION OF

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