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In Luck at Last

CHAPTER VII
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In India, we know, they manage matters differently, and so as to give the bridegroom no more trouble than is necessary.

This young man, however, took, he observed, the most wonderful pains and the most extraordinary trouble to please.
"Do you know, Lala Roy," Arnold said one morning after a silence of three hours or so, "do you know that this is going to be the portrait of the most beautiful woman in the world, and the best ?" "It is well," said the Philosopher, "when a young man desires virtue as well as beauty." "You have known her all her life.

Don't trouble yourself to speak, Lala.

You can nod your head if there isn't a maxim ready.

You began to lodge in the house twenty years ago, and you have seen her every day since.


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