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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XXII
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I can affirm that her legs are strong, for she walks to Bellingham twice a week to take her Scarlet bath, when, having confessed and been made clean by the Romish unction, she walks back the brisker, of which my Protestant muscular systems is yet aware.

It was on the road to Bellingham I engaged her.

She is well in the matter of hair.
Madam Godiva might challenge her, it would be a fair match.

Has it never struck you that Woman is nearer the vegetable than Man ?--Mr.Blaize intends her for his son a junction that every lover of fairy mythology must desire to see consummated.

Young Tom is heir to all the agremens of the Beast.


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