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The Hoyden

CHAPTER III
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And if your uncle _should_ chance to die, why, then she will marry you; but if in the meantime she meets anyone with money who will marry her, why, good-bye to _you_.

But you must not marry! Mind that! You must be held in chains whilst she goes free.

Really, Maurice," rising and regarding him with extreme contempt, "your folly is so great over this absurd infatuation for Marian, that sometimes I wonder if you can be my own son." "I am my father's son also," says Maurice.

"He, I believe, did sometimes believe in somebody.

He believed in you." He turns away abruptly, and an inward laugh troubles him.


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