Poor Things

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1: MAKING ME

2: MAKING GODWIN BAXTER

3: THE QUARREL

4: A FASCINATING STRANGER

5: MAKING BELLA BAXTER

6: BAXTER’S DREAM

7: BY THE FOUNTAIN

8: THE ENGAGEMENT

9: AT THE WINDOW

10: WITHOUT BELLA

11: EIGHTEEN PARK CIRCUS

WEDDERBURN’S LETTER

12: Making a Maniac

13: INTERMISSION

BELLA BAXTER’S LETTER

14: Glasgow to Odessa: The Gamblers

15: Odessa to Alexandria: The Missionaries

16: Alexandria to Gibraltar: Astley’s Bitter Wisdom

17: Gibraltar to Paris: Wedderburn’s Last Flight

18: Paris to Glasgow: The Return

19: MY SHORTEST CHAPTER

20: GOD ANSWERS

21: AN INTERRUPTION

22: THE TRUTH: MY LONGEST CHAPTER

23: BLESSINGTON’S LAST STAND

24: GOOD-BYE

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of the Author

Mr. Godwin Baxter, from a portrait by Ajax MacGillicuddy R.S.A.

Bella Baxter, from a photograph in The Daily Telegraph

Duncan Wedderburn

Facsimile of Bella Baxter’s MS.

Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac

General Sir Aubrey de la Pole Blessington, Bart V.C., from the London Illustrated News

Blaydon Hattersley from the profile on his wages tokens

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