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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XLVII
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Her message of love thrice underlined the repeated word.
Henrietta was the last person Carinthia would have expected to meet midway on the London road.

Her name was called from a carriage as she drove up to the door of the Winchester hostlery, and in the lady, over whose right eye and cheek a covering fold of silk concealed a bandage, the voice was her sister Riette's.

With her were two babes and their nursemaids.
'Chillon is down there--you have left him there ?' Henrietta greeted her, saw the reply, and stepped out of her carriage.

'You shall kiss the children afterwards; come into one of the rooms, Janey.' Alone together, before an embrace, she said, in the voice of tears hardening to the world's business, 'Chillon must not enter London.

You see the figure I am.


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