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Phantom Fortune, A Novel

CHAPTER IX
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'What an expressive manner Jack's must be, if it can convey all that--like Lord Burleigh's nod, by Jove.

Why, what a goose you are, Mary.

Jack thinks you a very nice girl, and a very pretty girl, I'll be bound; but aren't you clever enough to understand that when a man is over head and ears in love with one woman, he is apt to seem just a little indifferent to all the other women in the world?
and there is no doubt Jack is desperately in love with Lesbia.' 'You ought not to let him be in love with her,' protested Mary.

'You know it can only lead to his unhappiness.

You must know what grandmother is, and how she has made up her mind that Lesbia is to marry some great person.


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