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The Europeans

CHAPTER XII
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"My word was never doubted before," she said.
"We are to have another marriage," Acton repeated, smiling.
Then she appeared to understand.

"Another marriage ?" And she looked at the others.

Felix was chattering to Gertrude; Charlotte, at a distance, was watching them; and Mr.Brand, in quite another quarter, was turning his back to them, and, with his hands under his coat-tails and his large head on one side, was looking at the small, tender crescent of a young moon.

"It ought to be Mr.Brand and Charlotte," said Eugenia, "but it does n't look like it." "There," Acton answered, "you must judge just now by contraries.

There is more than there looks to be.


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