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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER VII
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Baden will detain my cousin full a week.

She has Captain Abrane and Sir Meeson Corby in attendance--her long shadow and her short: both devoted to Lord F., to win her smile, and how he drives them! The captain has been paraded on the promenade, to the stupefaction of the foreigner.

Princes, counts, generals, diplomats passed under him in awe.

I am told that he is called St.Christopher.
'Why do we go thus hastily ?--my friend, this letter has to be concealed.
I know some one who sees in the dark.
'Think no harm of Livia.

She is bent upon my worldly advantage, and that is plain even to the person rejecting it.


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