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Her husband was the unriddled riddle we have in the wealthy young lord, burning to possess, and making, tatters of all he grasped, the moment it was his own. Glints of the devilish had shot from him at the gamingtables, fine haunts for the study of our lower man. He could be magnificent in generosity; he had little humaneness.
Her husband was the unriddled riddle we have in the wealthy young lord, burning to possess, and making, tatters of all he grasped, the moment it was his own. Glints of the devilish had shot from him at the gamingtables, fine haunts for the study of our lower man. He could be magnificent in generosity; he had little humaneness.
To a foreigner fresh from gentle lands there might well be a menace in their ambuscade, but he had known men of their race, if not of so savage an aspect, in the retinues of the Scots exiles who hung about the side-doors of Saint Germains, passed mysterious days between that domicile of tragic comedy and Avignon or Rome, or ruffled it on empty pockets at the gamingtables, so he had no apprehension.
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