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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XVII
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This time she descended the coach by the aid of the ladder.
Ines, victorious in battle, had scant notice from his love.

'Yes, I 'm glad,' and she passed him to follow her newly constituted mistress.

His pride was dashed, all the foam of the first draw on the top of him blown off, as he figuratively explained the cause of his gloom to the earl.
'I drink and I gets a licking--that girl nurses and cossets me.

I don't drink and I whops my man--she shows me her back.

Ain't it encouragement, my lord ?' 'You ought to know them by this time, you dolt,' returned his patron, and complimented him on his bearing in the fight.


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