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The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

CHAPTER I
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Leonora has a dragon of a brother who would compel her to marry that pink of empty propriety, Sir Courtly, but she rebels against the admirer selected for her, as all well-bred young women should in plays, and sets her heart upon another.

In consequence there is trouble of the dear old romantic kind.
"I never stir out, but as they say the Devil does, with chains and torments," Leonora tells Violante.

"She that is my Hell at home is so abroad." "Vio.

A New Woman?
"LEO.

No, an old Woman, or rather an old Devil; nay, worse than an old Devil, an old Maid.
"Vio.


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