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To many a courageous man a proposal is a formidable business, but Lord Courland certainly did not appear to find it so; nor was it necessary for the beautiful widow to give him any encouragement.
"Need I say I adore you? " he exclaimed. "You must be conscious that from the first moment I beheld you I was fascinated by your charms."