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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXVI
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London waited for it.
A rich man's easy smile over losses at play, merely taught his emulous troop to feel themselves poor devils in the pocket.

But Fleetwood's contempt of Sleep was a marvel, superhuman, and accused them of an inferior vigour, hard for young men to admit by the example.

He never went to bed.

Issuing from Fortune's hall-doors in the bright, lively, summer morning, he mounted horse and was away to the hills.

Or he took the arm of a Roman Catholic nobleman, Lord Feltre, and walked with him from the green tables and the establishment's renowned dry still Sillery to a Papist chapel.


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