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The Queen’s Cup

CHAPTER 9
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I think, Frank, that I had better go in again.

So you will take us tomorrow ?" "Certainly," he said.
He took her in to Lady Greendale, and then went off to the Osprey.
He was feeling in higher spirits than he had done for some time, as he walked up and down the deck for an hour before turning in.

It seemed to him that she might not after all accept Carthew, and that he would not be obliged to bring trouble upon her by telling the shameful story.
"It will be all the same, as far as I am concerned," he said to himself, "but I am sure that I could stand her marrying anyone else; which, of course, she will do before long, better than Carthew.

I hear whispers that he was hard hit at Ascot, though he gives out that he won.

Not that that matters much, but it is never a good lookout for a girl to marry a man who gambles, even though she be rich, and her friends take good care to settle her money upon herself.


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