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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XLIV
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BETWEEN THE EARL, THE COUNTESS AND HER BROTHER, AND OF A.
SILVER CROSS Carinthia was pleased by hearing Lord Fleetwood say to her: 'Your Madge and my Gower are waiting to have the day named for them.' She said: 'I respect him so much for his choice of Madge.

They shall not wait, if I am to decide.' 'Old Mr.Woodseer has undertaken to join them.' 'It is in Whitechapel they will be married.' The blow that struck was not intended, and Fleetwood passed it, under her brother's judicial eye.

Any small chance word may carry a sting for the neophyte in penitence.
'My lawyers will send down the settlement on her, to be read to them to-day or to-morrow.

With the interest on that and the sum he tells me he has in the Funds, they keep the wolf from the door--a cottage door.
They have their cottage.


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