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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER XVIII
10/16

"It was not I who talked about Jeanne's fortune.

It was all the world who said how rich she was.

Why should I contradict them?
I wanted a place once more in the only Society in Europe which counts, English society.

There was only one way and I took it.

So long as people believed Jeanne to be the heiress of a great fortune, I was made welcome wherever I chose to go.


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