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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A YOUNG LADY APPEABS ON THE STAGE. A Eather unexpected circumstance occurred immediately afterwards. Thomas Morris, butler to the Prince d'Amand- -villiers, was brought before Mr. Harrison, at Bow Street, charged with robbing his employer. The Prince d'Amandvilliers, who was accommodated with a seat on the bench, said: The prisoner is my butler. The Princess had him with a character of thirty years from the late occupants of the house in which I now reside. I never had any reason to suspect him of anything, except lately I thought that he TOL. II. I) drank too much. I had gone to bed on the night of last Friday, when I was aroused by a knocking at the door. I discovered him to be in the hands of the police, with the things I see produced in court upon him. Are these things yours, Prince? said the attorney defending the prisoner. No, was the answer. Are they your wife's ? I don't think that that matters. Perhaps not, Prince. Will you swear that your landlord is not the prisoner's brother? I never heard of it, said the puzzled Prince. Very possibly, said the attorney, but will you swear it ? No. Will you swear that the prisoner is not brother to the Princess, your wife ? There was a ghastly silence. The Prince buried his head in his hands, while the whole court waited for his reply. In a moment he saw that it was possible. In a moment he saw that he did not know who his ivife loas. He knew not, and as far as he was concerned, cared less. But if this could be proved, it was ruin to her, ?to her who was all the world to him. She might be the sister of all the convicts in New South Wales, but she was his Isabel. Still he was a Frenchman, and a match for all these insular idiots. The audience wat...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217981842 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217981844 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $16.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 100 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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