Produced by Eleni Christofaki, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net |=================================================| | MR. WELLS HAS ALSO WRITTEN | | The following Novels: | | | | TONO BUNGAY | | LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM | | KIPPS ANN VERONICA | | THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY | | and THE NEW MACHIAVELLI | | | | Numerous short stories now published | | in a single volume under the title. | | THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND | | | | The following fantastic Romances: | | | | THE TIME MACHINE | | THE WONDERFUL VISIT | | THE INVISIBLE MAN | | THE WAR OF THE WORLDS | | THE SEA LADY | | IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET | | THE SLEEPER AWAKES | | THE FOOD OF THE GODS | | THE WAR IN THE AIR | | THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON | | and THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU | | | | And a series of books upon social and political | | questions of which | | | | A MODERN UTOPIA | | FIRST AND LAST THINGS (RELIGION) | | NEW WORLDS FOR OLD | | THE FUTURE IN AMERICA | | and ANTICIPATIONS | | are the chief. | |=================================================| MARRIAGE BY H. G. WELLS "And the Poor Dears haven't the shadow of a doubt they will live happily ever afterwards."--_From a Private Letter_. [Illustration] NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1912 COPYRIGHT, 1912 DUFFIELD & COMPANY _FRATERNALLY TO ARNOLD BENNETT_ BOOK THE FIRST MARJORIE MARRIES MARRIAGE CHAPTER THE FIRST A DAY WITH THE POPES § 1