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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXIII
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The kind is famous.

Fairy tales and terrible romances tell of her; she is just as much at home in life, and springs usually from the mire to enthral our knightliest.

Is it a popular hero?
She has him, sooner or later.

A planet Croesus?
He falls to her.
That is, if his people fail to attach him in legal bonds to a damsel of a corresponding birth on the day when he is breeched.
Small is her need to be young--especially if it is the man who is very young.

She is the created among women armed with the deadly instinct for the motive force in men, and shameless to attract it.


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