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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XI
20/27

And it was just then, by the chance of things--by the direction of events, as Dame Gossip believes it to be--while colour, expression, and her proud stature marked her from her sex, that a gentleman, who was no other than Lord Fleetwood, passed Carinthia, coming out of the deeper pine forest.
Some distance on, round a bend of the path, she was tempted to adventure by a projected forked head of a sturdy blunted and twisted little rock-fostered forest tree pushing horizontally for growth about thirty feet above the lower ground.

She looked on it, and took a step down to the stem soon after.
Fleetwood had turned and followed, merely for the final curious peep at an unexpected vision; he had noticed the singular shoot of thick timber from the rock, and the form of the goose-neck it rose to, the sprout of branches off the bill in the shape of a crest.

And now a shameful spasm of terror seized him at sight of a girl doing what he would have dreaded to attempt.

She footed coolly, well-balanced, upright.

She seated herself.
And there let her be.


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