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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXVIII
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And I thank you for your advice.
Do me the favour to follow mine.
'Commands should be the word.' 'Phrase it as you please.' 'You know I hate responsibility.' 'The chorus in classical dramas had generally that sentiment, but the singing was the sweeter for it.' 'Whom do you not win when you condescend to the mood, you dear boy ?' He restrained a bitter reply, touching the kind of persons he had won: a girl from the mountains, a philosophical tramp of the roads, troops of the bought.
Livia spelt at the problem he was.

She put away the task of reading it.
He departed to see Lady Arpington, and thereby rivet his chains.
As Livia had said, she was a torch.

Lady Endor, Lady Eldritch, Lady Cowry, kindled at her.

Again there were flights of the burning brands over London.

The very odd marriage; the no-marriage; the two-ends-of-the-town marriage; and the maiden marriage a fruitful marriage; the monstrous marriage of the countess productive in banishment, and the unreadable earl accepting paternity; this Amazing Marriage was again the riddle in the cracker for tattlers and gapers.
It rattled upon the world's native wantonness, the world's acquired decorum: society's irrepressible original and its powerfully resisting second nature.


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