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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER IX
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Prone to admire and bend the knee where he admired, he chafed at subjection, unless he had the particular spell constantly renewed.
A tone in him once or twice of late, different from the comrade's, had warned Woodseer to be guarded.
Susceptible, however, of the extreme contrast between the gamblers below and Nature's lover beside him, Fleetwood returned to his enthusiasm without thinking it a bondage.
'I shall never forget the walk we 've had.

I have to thank you for the noblest of pleasures.

You 've taught me--well, a thousand things; the things money can't buy.

What mornings they were! And the dead-tired nights! Under the rock and up to see the snowy peak pink in a gap of thick mist.

You were right: it made a crimsoning colour shine like a new idea.


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