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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXIV
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'But no money; no one's to expect money of her.

The shots you hear in Esslemont grounds out of season are she and her maid, always alongside her, at it before a target on a bank, trying that old Lord Levellier's gunpowder out of his mill; and he's got no money either; not for his workmen, they say, until they congregate, and a threatening to blow him up brings forth half their pay, on account.

But he 's a known miser.

She's not that.

She's a pleasant-faced lady for the poor.


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