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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XLVII
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We're right in thinking that.

And our chief 's the right man.' 'He is Owain's friend and countryman,' said Carinthia, and pleased, her brother for talking like a girl, in the midst of methodical calculations of the cost of this and that, to purchase the supplies he would need.
She had an organizing head.

On her way down from London she had drawn on instructions from a London physician of old Peninsula experience to pencil a list of the medical and surgical stores required by a campaigning army; she had gained information of the London shops where they were to be procured; she had learned to read medical prescriptions for the composition of drugs.

She was at her Spanish still, not behind him in the ordinary dialogue, and able to correct him on points of Spanish history relating to fortresses, especially the Basque.

A French bookseller had supplied her with the Vicomte d'Eschargue's recently published volume of a Travels in Catalonia.


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