# An odd couple

Author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897

Genre: Married people -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78381

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=An+odd+couple+Oliphant&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

These ominous words were said very steadily and precisely, but with a certain sense of nervous excitement in the utterance, by Mr. Charles Tremenheere, one morning in November, in his own drawing-room, and were, I need scarcely say, addressed to his own wife. To whom else could they have been said? He was not the kind of man who might have been expected to speak words striking at the very root of family existence, being, indeed, a very orderly and respectable personage,--anything but a revolutionary. The amount of provocation which he had endured before he said them need not be entered into here. He had been married about ten years, and had two children, a boy of nine and a girl of seven....

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-odd-couple-78381/chapters/10/index.md)