The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 42: what you’re looking at

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THE DUKE OF MARCHMONT 23 if blessed with issue — to all who would profit by his death if he remained single. And Captain Lacey had his own reasons likewise for encouraging the duke in the idea of private nuptials, but what these reasons were, he explained not beforehand to his daughter. She herself asked no questions; she knew not even the names of the duke’s rel- atives, nor who they were; she sought to know nothing more than circumstances brought to her knowledge, and this knowledge was limited to the fact that he on whom she be- stowed her hand was the Duke of Marchmont, and that she was now a duchess. : com (@) IDooks (E(O)