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Chapter 1: A MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. EDITED BY THE AUTHORESS OF ‘FLIRTATION.’
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A young merchant's daughter accepts an advantageous marriage to an aristocratic heir, but the wedding reveals emotional unease: the groom's agitation and distant manner unsettle the bride and her anxious mother. The narrative follows the couple's transition from public ceremony to domestic life at the husband's family seat, tracing social contrasts between bourgeois pride and aristocratic expectation. Scenes emphasize appearances, familial pride, private apprehension, and the sudden change in the bride's status. Early chapters focus on atmosphere, character reactions, and hints of underlying mystery about the husband's past and temperament, setting a tone of restrained tension as the new marriage settles into its outwardly respectable but inwardly fraught reality.

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Title: A Marriage in High Life, Volume I

Author: Lady Scott

Editor: Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury

Release date: March 20, 2022 [eBook #67669]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Henry Colburn, 1828

Credits: Fay Dunn, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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A MARRIAGE
 

 
IN HIGH LIFE.
 

EDITED BY
 

THE AUTHORESS OF ‘FLIRTATION.’

“I was compelled to her—but I love thee
By love’s own sweet constraint.”
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1828.

LONDON:
IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.