| "I acquired a wife today in the mar-ketplace. I told you I did some shop-ping. 1 bid twenty-one guineas forher . " It was not out of love or lust thatDaniel Warwyck, a dashing prize-fighter, had bought Kate Farringdon inthe market at Brighton that warm Julydav in 1826. Nor was it to spite hisyounger brother, who had also bid forKate s hand. Daniel Warwyck was buy-ing respectability; he hoped marriagewould reinstate him as heir to Warwyck Manor and the fortune that his ungen- tlemanly protession had cost him. But even marriage to as fine a girl as Kate Farringdon was a thin mask for respectability when Warwyck con- tinued to defy convention by refusing to leave the ring--and by insulting his wife with open infidelities. |
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