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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XI
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But, what?
He has been to a tailor and a barber!' 'Stop the coachman.

Run, tell Mr.Woodseer I wish him to join us,' Livia said, and Sir Meeson had to thank his tramp for a second indignity.

He protested, he simulated remonstrance,--he had to go, really feeling a sickness.
The singular-looking person, whose necessities or sense of the decencies had, unknown to himself and to the others, put them all in motion that day, swung round listening to the challenge to arms, as the puffy little man's delivery of the countess's message sounded.

He was respectably clad, he thought, in the relief of his escape from the suit of clothes discarded, and he silently followed Sir Meeson's trot to the carriage.
'Should have mistaken you for a German to-day, sir,' the latter said, and trotted on.
'A stout one,' Woodseer replied, with his happy indifference to his exterior.
His dark lady's eyes were kindly overlooking, like the heavens.

Her fair cousin, to whom he bowed, awakened him to a perception of the spectacle causing the slight, quick arrest of her look, in an astonishment not unlike the hiccup in speech, while her act of courtesy proceeded.


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