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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXII
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Her mask of ingenuousness was flung away for a look of craft, which could be power; and with her changed aspect his tolerance changed to hatred.
'A shop,' Lady Arpington explained for his better direction: 'potatoes, vegetable stuff.

Honest people, I am to believe.

She is indifferent to her food, she says.

She works, helping one of their ministers--one of their denominations: heaven knows what they call themselves! Anything to escape from the Church! She's likely to become a Methodist.

With Lord Feltre proselytizing for his Papist creed, Lord Pitscrew a declared Mohammedan, we shall have a pretty English aristocracy in time.


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