The Way We Live Now
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Chapter I Three Editors
Chapter II The Carbury Family
Chapter III The Beargarden
Chapter IV Madame Melmotte's Ball
Chapter V After the Ball
Chapter VI Roger Carbury and Paul Montague
Chapter VII Mentor
Chapter VIII Love-Sick
Chapter IX The Great Railway to Vera Cruz
Chapter X Mr Fisker's Success
Chapter XI Lady Carbury at Home
Chapter XII Sir Felix in His Mother's House
Chapter XIII The Longestaffes
Chapter XIV Carbury Manor
Chapter XV 'You Should Remember that I Am His Mother'
Chapter XVI The Bishop and the Priest
Chapter XVII Marie Melmotte Hears a Love Tale
Chapter XVIII Ruby Ruggles Hears a Love Tale
Chapter XIX Hetta Carbury Hears a Love Tale
Chapter XX Lady Pomona's Dinner Party
Chapter XXI Everybody Goes to Them
Chapter XXII Lord Nidderdale's Morality
Chapter XXIII 'Yes I'm a Baronet'
Chapter XXIV Miles Grendall's Triumph
Chapter XXV In Grosvenor Square
Chapter XXVI Mrs Hurtle
Chapter XXVII Mrs Hurtle Goes to the Play
Chapter XXVIII Dolly Longestaffe Goes into the City
Chapter XXIX Miss Melmotte's Courage
Chapter XXX Mr Melmotte's Promise
Chapter XXXI Mr Broune has Made up His Mind
Chapter XXXII Lady Monogram
Chapter XXXIII John Crumb
Chapter XXXIV Ruby Ruggles Obeys Her Grandfather
Chapter XXXV Melmotte's Glory
Chapter XXXVI Mr Broune's Perils
Chapter XXXVII The Board-Room
Chapter XXXVIII Paul Montague's Troubles
Chapter XXXIX 'I Do Love Him'
Chapter XL 'Unanimity is the Very Soul of These Things'
Chapter XLI All Prepared
Chapter XLII 'Can You Be Ready in Ten Minutes'
Chapter XLIII The City Road
Chapter XLIV The Coming Election
Chapter XLV Mr Melmotte is Pressed for Time
Chapter XLVI Roger Carbury and His Two Friends
Chapter XLVII Mrs Hurtle at Lowestoft
Chapter XLVIII Ruby a Prisoner
Chapter XLIX Sir Felix Makes Himself Ready
Chapter L The Journey to Liverpool
Chapter LI Which Shall it Be
Chapter LII The Results of Love and Wine
Chapter LIII A Day in the City
Chapter LIV The India Office
Chapter LV Clerical Charities
Chapter LVI Father Barham Visits London
Chapter LVII Lord Nidderdale Tries His Hand Again
Chapter LVIII Mr Squercum is Employed
Chapter LIX The Dinner
Chapter LX Miss Longestaffe's Lover
Chapter LXI Lady Monogram Prepares for the Party
Chapter LXII The Party
Chapter LXIII Mr Melmotte on the Day of the Election
Chapter LXIV The Election
Chapter LXV Miss Longestaffe Writes Home
Chapter LXVI 'So Shall Be My Enmity'
Chapter LXVII Sir Felix Protects His Sister
Chapter LXVIII Miss Melmotte Declares Her Purpose
Chapter LXIX Melmotte in Parliament
Chapter LXX Sir Felix Meddles with Many Matters
Chapter LXXI John Crumb Falls into Trouble
Chapter LXXII 'Ask Himself'
Chapter LXXIII Marie's Fortune
Chapter LXXIV Melmotte Makes a Friend
Chapter LXXV In Bruton Street
Chapter LXXVI Hetta and Her Lover
Chapter LXXVII Another Scene in Bruton Street
Chapter LXXVIII Miss Longestaffe Again at Caversham
Chapter LXXIX The Brehgert Correspondence
Chapter LXXX Ruby Prepares for Service
Chapter LXXXI Mr Cohenlupe Leaves London
Chapter LXXXII Marie's Perseverance
Chapter LXXXIII Melmotte Again at the House
Chapter LXXXIV Paul Montague's Vindication
Chapter LXXXV Breakfast in Berkeley Square
Chapter LXXXVI The Meeting in Bruton Street
Chapter LXXXVII Down at Carbury
Chapter LXXXVIII The Inquest
Chapter LXXXIX 'The Wheel of Fortune'
Chapter XC Hetta's Sorrow
Chapter XCI The Rivals
Chapter XCII Hamilton K. Fisker Again
Chapter XCIV John Crumb's Victory
Chapter XCV The Longestaffe Marriages
Chapter XCVI Where 'The Wild Asses Quench Their Thirst'
Chapter XCVII Mrs Hurtle's Fate
Chapter XCVIII Marie Melmotte's Fate
Chapter XCIX Lady Carbury and Mr Broune
Chapter C Down in Suffolk
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Chapter XLVIII Ruby a Prisoner

Ruby had run away from her lover in great dudgeon after the dance at the Music Hall, and had declared that she never wanted to see him again. But when reflection came with the morning her misery was stronger than her wrath. What would life be to her now without her lover? When she escaped from her grandfather's house she certainly had not intended

            
            

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