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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXV
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And without him, too, if he were wafted over seas and away: if there would but come a wind to do that! The wild North-easter tore the budded beeches.

Master John Edward Russett lay in the cradling-basket drawn by his docile donkey, Martha and Madge to right and left of him; a speechless rustic, graduating in footman's livery, to rear.
At slow march round by the wrinkled water, Madge saw the park gates flung wide.

A coach drove up the road along on the farther rim of the circle, direct for the house.

It stopped, the team turned leisurely and came at a smart pace toward the carriage-basket.

Lord Fleetwood was recognized.
He alighted, bidding one of his grooms drive to stables.


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