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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XIX
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Wealth creates the magician, and may breed the fiend within him.

In the hands of a young man, wealth is an invitation to devilry.

Gower's idea of the story of Carinthia inclined to charge Lord Fleetwood with every possible false dealing.

He then quashed the charge, and decided to wait for information.
At the second of the aristocratic Clubs of London's West, into which he stepped like an easy member, the hall-porter did not examine his clothing from German hat to boots, and gave him Lord Fleetwood's town address.

He could tell Madge at night by the door of the shuttered shop, that Lord Fleetwood had gone down to Wales.
'It means her having to wait,' she said.


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