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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER III
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If the lieutenant sent her away, Mr.Andrew would infallibly pursue her, and light on a discovery.

Twice cursed by Love, twice the victim of tailordom, our excellent Marine gave away Harriet Harrington in marriage to Mr.Andrew Cogglesby.
Thus Joy clapped hands a second time, and Horror deepened its shadows.
From higher ground it was natural that the remaining sister should take a bolder flight.

Of the loves of the fair Louisa Harrington and the foreign Count, and how she first encountered him in the brewer's saloons, and how she, being a humorous person, laughed at his 'loaf' for her, and wore the colours that pleased him, and kindled and soothed his jealousy, little is known beyond the fact that she espoused the Count, under the auspices of the affluent brewer, and engaged that her children should be brought up in the faith of the Catholic Church: which Lymport gossips called, paying the Devil for her pride.
The three sisters, gloriously rescued by their own charms, had now to think of their one young brother.

How to make him a gentleman! That was their problem.
Preserve him from tailordom--from all contact with trade--they must; otherwise they would be perpetually linked to the horrid thing they hoped to outlive and bury.

A cousin of Mr.Melchisedec's had risen to be an Admiral and a knight for valiant action in the old war, when men could rise.


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