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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XVI
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IN WHICH THE BRIDE FROM FOREIGN PARTS IS GIVEN A TASTE OF.
OLD ENGLAND Cheers at an open gate of a field saluted the familiar scarlet of the Earl of Fleetwood's coach in Kentish land.

They were chorister cheers, the spontaneous ringing out of English country hearts in homage to the nobleman who brightened the heaviness of life on English land with a spectacle of the noble art distinguishing their fathers.

He drove along over muffling turf; ploughboys and blue butcher-boys, and smocked old men, with an approach to a hundred-weight on their heels, at the trot to right and left; all hoping for an occasional sight of the jewel called Kitty, that he carried inside.

Kitty was there.
Kitty's eyes are shut.


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