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Fair Margaret

CHAPTER XXIII
15/23

That was a very pretty trick that I played on the most noble marquis at Granada.
Nothing neater was ever done, even in this place.

Well, I owed him a long score, and I have paid him off in full.

I should like to have seen his exalted countenance when he surveyed the features of his bride, the waiting-woman, and knew that the mistress was safe away with another man.

The nephew of the king, who would like himself to be king some day, married to an English waiting-woman! Good, very good, dear Inez.
"'Now, as regards the Jew, John Castell.

I think that the matter may possibly be managed, provided that the money is all right, for, as you know, I do not work for nothing.


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