Name: Le Mari Terrible
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Author: H. G. Wells

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WELLS, H. G.

Le Mari Terrible

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At an afternoon tea party, Bellows is quite sure he's having a delicate, meaningful flirtation with a married woman. Her husband, arriving in carpet slippers with his waistcoat half undone,…

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Part of H. G. Wells: The Complete Works, which reads in order.

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H. G. Wells Le Mari Terrible Overview This is a tiny, precise piece of comedy, and the joke is entirely on the narrator telling it. Bellows — vain, self-satisfied, thirty and thinning on top — is thoroughly convinced he’s conducting a delicate, meaningful flirtation with a married woman named Millie over afternoon tea. Her husband, John, a chemist absorbed in his research on argon, keeps interrupting to explain his wife’s character to the room in blunt, unflattering terms Bellows finds merely rude. It takes almost the whole story for the…

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Accession:FL-0485

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Language:en

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