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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXVIII
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He will speak his compliments in his English.' 'You are seasoned to endure them in all languages.

Pity another of your wounded: Brailstone has been hard hit at the tables.
'I cannot pity gamblers .-- May I venture ?--half a word ?' 'Tomes! But just a little compassion for the devoted.

He wouldn't play so madly--if, well, say a tenth dilution of the rapt hearing Columelli gets.' 'Signor Columelli sings divinely.' 'You don't dislike Brailstone ?' 'He is one of the agreeable.' 'He must put his feelings into Italian song!' 'To put them aside will do.' 'We are not to have our feelings ?' 'Yes, on the proviso that ours are respected.

But, one instant, Lord Fleetwood, pray.

She is--I have to speak of her as my sister.


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