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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXI
18/23

Think it over.

It's your one chance of keeping sane.
And expect to hear flat stuff from me while you go on playing tyrant.' 'You certainly take liberties,' Fleetwood's mildest voice remarked.
'I told you I should try you, when you plucked me out of my Surrey nest.' Fleetwood, passed from a meditative look to a malicious half-laugh.

'You seem to have studied the "most noble of ladies" latterly rather like a barrister with a brief for the defendant--plaintiff, if you like!' 'As to that, I'll help you to an insight of a particular weakness of mine,' said Gower.

'I require to have persons of even the highest value presented to me on a stage, or else I don't grasp them at all--they 're simply pictures.

I saw the lady; admired, esteemed, sufficiently, I supposed, until her image appeared to me in the feelings of another.
Then I saw fathoms.


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