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The Woodlanders

CHAPTER XXXVII
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Well, Mrs.Fitzpiers has her remedy." "How--what--a remedy ?" said Melbury.
"Under the new law, sir.

A new court was established last year, and under the new statute, twenty and twenty-one Vic., cap.

eighty-five, unmarrying is as easy as marrying.

No more Acts of Parliament necessary; no longer one law for the rich and another for the poor.
But come inside--I was just going to have a nibleykin of rum hot--I'll explain it all to you." The intelligence amazed Melbury, who saw little of newspapers.

And though he was a severely correct man in his habits, and had no taste for entering a tavern with Fred Beaucock--nay, would have been quite uninfluenced by such a character on any other matter in the world--such fascination lay in the idea of delivering his poor girl from bondage, that it deprived him of the critical faculty.


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