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A Honeymoon in Space: read and explore
When British aristocrat Lord Redgrave kidnaps the woman he loves aboard his anti-gravity…
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- Author
- George Chetwynd Griffith
- Form
- novel
- Catalog year
- 1901
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Read A Honeymoon in SpacePreview the language: Chapter 1
The situation was one which was absolutely without parallel in all the history of courtship from the days of Mother Eve to those of Miss Lilla Zaidie Rennick. The nearest approach to it would have been the old-fashioned Tartar custom which made it lawful for a man to steal his best girl, if he could get her first, fling her across his horse's crupper and ride away with her to his tent. But to the shocked senses of Mrs. Van …
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