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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXV
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Can a man like that be foolish, in saying of the Countess Carinthia, she is 'not only quick to understand, she is in the quick of understanding'?
Gower Woodseer said it of her in Wales, and again on the day of his walk up to London from Esslemont, after pedestrian exercise, which may heat the frame, but cools the mind.

She stamped that idea on a thoughtful fellow.
He's a Welshman.

They are all excitable,--have heads on hound's legs for a flying figure in front.

Still, they must have an object, definitely seen by them--definite to them if dim to their neighbours; and it will run in the poetic direction: and the woman to win them, win all classes of them, within so short a term, is a toss above extraordinary.

She is named Carinthia--suitable name for the Welsh pantomimic procession.


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