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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXIX
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Brosey Mallard down on him for a few fighting men.
Perfect answer to Brosey.' 'Mr.Mallard did not mention the robbery,' Henrietta remarked.
'Feared to shock: Corby such a favoured swain,' Potts accounted for the omission.
'Brosey spilling last night ?' Fleetwood asked.
'At the palazzo, we were,' said Potts.

'Luck pretty fair first off.
Brosey did his trick, and away and away and away went he! More old Brosey wins, the wiser he gets.

I stayed.' He swung to Gower: 'Don't drink dry Sillery after two A.M.You read me ?' 'Egyptian, but decipherable,' said Gower.
The rising of the curtain drew his habitual groan from Potts, and he fled to collogue with the goodly number of honest fellows in the house of music who detested 'squallery.' Most of these afflicted pilgrims to the London conservatory were engaged upon the business of the Goddess richly inspiring the Heliconian choir, but rendering the fountain-waters heady.

Here they had to be, if they would enjoy the spectacle of London's biggest and choicest bouquet: and in them, too, there was an unattached air during Potts' cooling discourse of turf and tables, except when he tossed them a morsel of tragedy, or the latest joke, not yet past the full gallop on its course.

Their sparkle was transient; woman had them fast.


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