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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXIII
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The mixed origin of the singular issue could not be examined, where all was increasingly funny.
Always the shout for more produced it.

She and her band of Whitechapel boys were about in ambush to waylay the earl wherever he went.

She stood knocking at his door through a whole night.

He dared not lug her before a magistrate for fear of exposure.

Once, riding in the park with a troop of friends he had a young woman pointed out to him, and her finger was levelled, and she cried: 'There is the English nobleman who marries a girl and leaves her to go selling cabbages!' He left town for the Island, and beheld his yacht sailing the Solent:--my lady the countess was on board! A pair of Tyrolese minstrels in the square kindled his enthusiasm at one of his dinners; he sent them a sovereign; their humble, hearty thanks were returned to him in the name of Die Grafin von Fleetwood.
The Ladies Endor, Eldritch, and Cowry sifted their best.


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