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"You have turned down other fellows as rich as I am ere crazy

about you, and other men much more attractive, so you must loveto ood conceit of hi, for he was the only child of a very rich man, had been

pampered and made much of in his childhood, and later had been toadied

to and sought after by women as well as men, first as heir to, and

subsequently as the actual possessor of, a vast fortune Many girls

with an eye on the led for

hiness to become Mrs Antony

Standish, and Tony was not unaware of the fact

Perhaps it was because Myra Rostrevor had always seemed to be totally

indifferent to him that he had lost his heart to her, and made up his

mind to win her and make her his wife at all costs It had not been

easy, but Tony had found a very willing ally in the person of Myra's

aunt, Clarissa, Lady Feret her orphan niece off her hands, not only because Myra

was an expense, but because her madcap exploits occasionally drove her