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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXII
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Mr.Woodseer, run to my nurse-girl, Martha.

He goes,' she murmured, and resumed to the earl: 'Father told me women have a better chance than men with a biting dog.

He put me before him and drilled me.

He thought of everything.
Usually the poor beast snaps--one angry bite, not more.

My dress teased it.' Fleetwood grinned civilly in his excitement; intending to yield patient hearing, to be interested by any mortal thing she might choose to say.
She was advised by recollection to let her father rest.
'No, dear girl, not hurt, no scratch,--only my gown torn,' she said to Madge; and Madge heaved and whimpered, and stooped to pin the frayed strips.


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