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Birds of Prey

CHAPTER I
19/39

To tell me that there's a black cloud between you and everything you look at, is only a sentimental way of telling me that you're bilious.

Pray be practical, and let us look at things from a business point of view.

Here is Appendix A .-- a copy of the registry of the marriage of Matthew Haygarth, bachelor, of Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex, to Mary Murchison, spinster, of Southwark, in the county of Surrey.

And here is Appendix B .-- a copy of the registry of the marriage between William Meynell, bachelor, of Smithfield, in the county of Middlesex, to Caroline Mary Haygarth, spinster, of Highgate, in the same county." "You have found the entry of a second Haygarthian marriage ?" "I have.

The C.of Matthew's letters is the Caroline Mary here indicated, the daughter and heiress of Matthew Haygarth--doubtless christened Caroline after her gracious majesty the consort of George II., and Mary after the Molly whose picture was found in the tulip-leaf bureau.


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