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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER IX
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You have your one poetical admirer in him.' 'I am honoured, Russett.' 'Cleared out, I suppose?
Abrane is a funnel for pouring into that Bank.
Have your fun as you like it! I shall get supplies to-morrow.

By the way, you have that boy Cressett here.

What are you doing with him ?' Livia spoke of watching over him and guarding him: 'He was at the table beside me, bursting to have a fling; and my friend Mr.Woodseer said, it was "Adonis come to spy the boar":--the picture!' Prompt as bugle to the breath, Livia proposed to bet him fifty pounds that she would keep young Cressett from gambling a single louis.

The pretty saying did not touch her.
Fleetwood moved and bowed.

Sir Meeson Corby simulated a petrifaction of his frame at seeing the Countess of Fleetwood actually partly bent with her gracious acknowledgement of the tramp's gawky homage..


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