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Heavy Odds
Excerpt from Heavy Odds: A Novel
In point of fact, she was too clever for him. With her mother to back her, this little minx of seventeen would have been a match for a more experienced lady-killer than Mr. Cyril Chatteris. In vain he laughed at her, talked at her, made eyes at her, and chatted with her over the teacups. She was impervious.
In point of fact, she was too clever for him. With her mother to back her, this little minx of seventeen would have been a match for a more experienced lady-killer than Mr. Cyril Chatteris. In vain he laughed at her, talked at her, made eyes at her, and chatted with her over the teacups. She was impervious.
388 pages, Hardcover
Published August 24, 2018
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Marcus Clarke
45 books28 followersAustralian writer Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, known as Marcus Clarke, was born in Kensington, London. His mother died when he was just a small child and he was raised by his father, a lawyer.
Marcus Clarke moved to Victoria, Australia, where he had an uncle in the provincial town of Ararat, and landed in Melbourne in June 1863. In 1869 Clarke married the actress Marian Dunn and shortly afterwards they started to raise a family of six children. He died of pleurisy at the age of thirty-five.
Marcus Clarke moved to Victoria, Australia, where he had an uncle in the provincial town of Ararat, and landed in Melbourne in June 1863. In 1869 Clarke married the actress Marian Dunn and shortly afterwards they started to raise a family of six children. He died of pleurisy at the age of thirty-five.
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