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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXIII
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She can be feminine, too,--there is one who knows.

She can be particularly distant, too.

If in timidity, she has a modest view of herself--or an enormous conception of the magi that married her.

Will she take the world's polish a little?
Fleetwood asked with the simplicity of the superior being who will consequently perhaps bestow the debt he owes...
But his was not the surface nature which can put a question of the sort and pass it.

As soon as it had been formed, a vision of the elemental creature calling him husband smote to shivers the shell we walk on, and caught him down among the lower forces, up amid the higher; an infernal and a celestial contest for the extinction of the one or the other of them, if it was not for their union.


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