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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XIV
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He is insufferable and next to useless.

How can one talk with any confidence of relationship with a Major of Marines?
When I reflect on what he is, and his conduct to Caroline, I have inscrutable longings to slap his face.

Tell dear Carry her husband's friend--the chairman or something of that wonderful company of Strike's--you know--the Duke of Belfield is coming here.

He is a blood-relation of the Elburnes, therefore of the Jocelyns.

It will not matter at all.


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