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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER VIII
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Why, 'tis plain as the plan of fate! It was in the stars that I should come to you.

This face, this form, this heart, this soul--I shall see nothing else so long as I live! Oh, I feel myself unworthy; you have right to think me of no station.

Yet some day I shall bring to you all that wealth can buy, all that station can mean.

Catharine--dear Lady Kitty--dear Kate--" "I like not so fast a soothsaying in any suitor of mine," replied Lady Catharine, hotly, "and this shall go no further." Her hand restrained him.
"Then you find me distasteful?
You would banish me?
I could not learn to endure it!" Lady Catharine looked at him curiously.

"Actually, sir," said she, "you cause me to chill.


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