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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXII
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By right?
She was a Miss Kirby.' 'She has the right,' Fleetwood said, standing well up out of a discharge of musketry.
'Marriage not contested.

You knew of her being in that place ?--I can't describe it.' 'Your ladyship will pardon me ?' London's frontier of barbarism was named for him again, and in a tone to penetrate.
He refrained from putting the question of how she had come there.
As iron as he looked, he said: 'She stays there by choice.' The great lady tapped her foot on the floor.
'You are not acquainted with the district.' 'One of my men comes out of it.' 'The coming out of it!...

However, I understand her story, that she travelled from a village inn, where she had been left-without resources.
She waited weeks; I forget how many.

She has a description of maid in attendance on her.

She came to London to find her husband.


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