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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER IV
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To-day I sit down to bridge opposite a man with a well-filled purse, and my one idea is to lighten it.

Nothing, I am convinced, but the fear of being found out, keeps us reasonably moral." "If we go on talking like this," Lord Ronald remarked, "we shall make Miss Le Mesurier nervous.

She will feel that we, and the whole of the rest of the world, have our eyes upon her moneybags." "I am absolutely safe," Jeanne answered smiling.

"I do not play bridge, and even my signature would be of no use to any one yet." "But you might imagine us," Lord Ronald continued, "waiting around breathlessly until the happy time arrived when you were of age, and we could pursue our diabolical schemes." Jeanne shook her head.
"You cannot frighten me, Lord Ronald," she said.

"I feel safe from every one.


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