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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XV
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They ought to set the fashion.

Here we have the English people at their grandest, in prime condition, if they were not drunk overnight; and dogged, perfectly awake, magnanimous, all for fair play; fine fellows, upon my word.

A little blood, of course.' But the daughter of the Old Buccaneer would have inherited a tenderness for the sight of blood.

She should make a natural Lady Patroness of England's National Sports.

We might turn her to that purpose; wander over England with a tail of shouting riff-raft; have exhibitions, join in them, display our accomplishments; issue challenges to fence, shoot, walk, run, box, in time: the creature has muscle.


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