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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER XVII
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"Good sir," cried she, merrily, "'tis morning.
Let's break our fast, and so set forth proper on our voyage." "So now we are free," said Law, dully.

"I could swear there were shackles on me." "Yes, we are free," said Mary Connynge, "and all the world is before us.
But saw you ever in all your life a man so dumfounded as was Sir Arthur when he discovered 'twas I, and not the Lady Catharine, had stepped into the carriage?
That confusion of the carriages was like to have cost us everything.

I know not how your brother made such mistake.

He said he would fetch me home the night.

Gemini! It sure seems a long way about! And where may be your brother now, or Sir Arthur, or the Lady Catharine--why, 'tis as much confused as though 'twere all in a play!" "But Sir Arthur cried that my ship was for France.


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