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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXIV
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Mr.Dudley Sowerby's eye upon Nesta was really an apprentice.

There is in Love's young season a magnanimity in the male kind.

Their superior strength and knowledge are made subservient to the distaff of the weaker and shallower: they crown her queen; her look is their mandate.

So was it when Sir Charles and Sir Rupert and the estimable Villiers Davenant touched maidenly hearts to throb: so is it now, with the Hon.

Dudley Sowerby.
Very haltingly, the ladies were guilty of a suggestion to Victor.


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