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The Shuttle

CHAPTER XIX
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There was something akin to the pomp of royalty in the power her father's wealth implied.

She could scarcely make an ordinary marriage.

It would naturally be a sort of state affair.
There were few men who had enough to offer in exchange for Vanderpoel millions, and of the few none had special attractions.

The one in the box next to the royal party was a decent enough fellow.

As young princesses were not infrequently called upon, by the mere exclusion of royal blood, to become united to young or mature princes without charm, so American young persons who were of royal possessions must find themselves limited.


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