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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XLIV
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Out there in the war she is protected.

Here she is with--I spare your lordship the name.' Fleetwood would have heard harsher had he not been Carinthia's husband.
He withheld his reply.

The language moved him to proud hostility: but the speaker was Carinthia's brother.
He said to her: 'You won't forget Gower and Madge ?' She gave him a smile in saying: 'It shall be settled for a day after next week.' The forms of courtesy were exchanged.
At the closing of the door on him, Chillon said: 'He did send a message: I gathered it--without the words--from our Uncle Griphard.

I thought him in honour bound to you--and it suited me that I should.' 'I was a blindfold girl, dearest; no warning would have given me sight,' said Carinthia.

'That was my treachery to the love of my brother..


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