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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XX
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Things going favourably here, I drive back to town to-morrow, and I hope you will accept a seat in my carriage.' He delivered his courtliest; he was riding on cloud.
They talked of Baden.

His honourable surrender of her defeated purse was a subject for gentle humour with her, venturesome compliment with him.
He spoke well; and though his hands were clean of Sir Meeson Corby's reproach of them, the caricature of presentable men blushed absurdly and seemed uneasy in his monstrous collar.

The touching of him again would not be required to set him pacing to her steps.

His hang of the head testified to the unerring stamp of a likeness Captain Abrane could affix with a stroke: he looked the fiddler over his bow, playing wonderfully to conceal the crack of a string.

The merit of being one of her army of admirers was accorded to him.


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