Word: horrorstruck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been married before, to a scalawag whose fraudulent stock-company transactions finally landed him in an Australian jail. Five years after his reported death, she married her second husband. But Mr. Pim says he has just come from Australia on the same boat with her first. George is horrorstruck. His love for Olivia is solid and settled, but his fear of the Law and the County is stronger. Things look bad for Olivia. Mr. Pim is recalled by an irate and agitated family council, and pressed for further particulars. Says he: "Why, the man died at Marseilles, I thought...
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