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Ulysses

the scene, strong to the verge of weakness, falling a victim
to her siren charms and forgetting home ties, the usual
sequel, to bask in the loved one’s smiles. The eternal
question of the life connubial, needless to say, cropped up.

Can real love, supposing there happens to be another chap
in the case, exist between married folk? Poser. Though it
was no concern of theirs absolutely if he regarded her with
affection, carried away by a wave of folly. A magnificent
specimen of manhood he was truly augmented obviously
by gifts of a high order, as compared with the other
military supernumerary that is (who was just the usual
everyday farewell, my gallant captain kind of an individual in
the light dragoons, the l8th hussars to be accurate) and
inflammable doubtless (the fallen leader, that is, not the
other) in his own peculiar way which she of course,
woman, quickly perceived as highly likely to carve his way
to fame which he almost bid fair to do till the priests and
ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch
adherents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he
had done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country
by taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that
exceeded their most sanguine expectations, very effectually
cooked his matrimonial goose, thereby heaping coals of
fire on his head much in the same way as the fabled ass’s

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