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Shelley’s Refusal to join in the Resettlement of A and B--His Places of Residence in Two Years and Eight Months--_A Refutation of Deism_--Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Discord between Shelley and Harriett--Their Remarriage--Miss Westbrook’s Withdrawal--Shelley’s Desertion of Harriett--The Desertion closes in Separation by mutual Agreement--‘Do what other Women do!’--Causes of the Separation--How Shelley’s Evidence touching them should be regarded--Peacock’s Testimony for Harriett--Shelley in Skinner Street--‘The Mask of Scorn’--Mary Godwin _not_ bred up to mate in Free Contract--Old St. Pancras Church--At Mary Wollstonecraft’s Grave--Claire’s Part in the Wooing--Excuses for Mary Godwin--The Elopement from Skinner Street--From London to Dover--From Dover to Calais--A ‘Scene’ at Calais--The Joint Journal--Mrs. Shelley convicted of Tampering with Evidence-- The Six Weeks’ Tour--Shelley begs Harriett to come to him in Switzerland--Byron’s Hunger for Evil Fame--Shelley’s Self-Approbation and Self-Righteousness--Godwin’s Wrath with Shelley--Their subsequent Relations--Shelley’s Renewal of Intercourse with Harriett--Tiffs and Disagreements between Claire and Mary--Claire’s Incapacity for Friendship--She wants more than Friendship from Shelley.