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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER IX
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They had a quarrel about calculations of chances, and Fleet ran the V up his forehead at a piece of impudence.

Fellow says some high-flying stuff; Fleet brightens like a Sunday chimney-sweep.

If I believed in Black Arts, upon my word!' 'Russett is not usually managed with ease,' the lady said.
Her placid observation was directed on the pair then descending the steps.
'Be careful how you address, this gentleman,' she counselled Abrane.
'The name is not Woodier, I know.

It must be the right name or none.' Livia's fairest smile received them.

She heard the captain accosting the child of luck as Mr.Woodier, and she made a rustle in rising to take Fleetwood's arm.
'We haven't dined, we have to sup,' said he.
'You are released at the end of the lamps.


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