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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXVI
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If he heard her call a gentleman by his Christian name, and heard the gentleman say 'Carinthia' my lord would begin to shiver at changes.

Women have to do unusual things when they would bring that outer set to human behaviour.

Perhaps my lord would mount the coach-box and whip his horses away, adieu forever.

His lady would not weep.

He might, perhaps, command her to keep her mouth shut from gentlemen's Christian names, all except his own.


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