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The Patrician

CHAPTER XX
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What a splendid couple! If Babs married young Harbinger there would not be a finer pair in all England.

His eyes travelled back to Courtier.

Manly enough! They called him dangerous! There was a look of effervescence, carefully corked down--might perhaps be attractive to a girl! To his essentially practical and sober mind, a type like Courtier was puzzling.

He liked the look of him, but distrusted his ironic expression, and that appearance of blood to the head.

Fellow--no doubt--that would ride off on his ideas, humanitarian! To Lord Dennis there was something queer about humanitarians.


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