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Episode 26

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 18:23 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 31, Who's Clarence? Things get turned upside down when the presence of a man called Clarence becomes known, and Colonel Begg suddenly finds himself more at odds with Malvina than before. Lorcan's star wanes as the two heavyweights battle it out... though perhaps not.

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Episode 25

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 18:20 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 29, Gladys and Jimmy Smiles. Barabal's next move toward escape is to make use of her portion of the supplies, but as she and her friends bring the kit to Jimmy Smiles, the miner who has agreed to buy them, two things happen to Gladys Bullock, one auspicious, one ominous. Chapter 30, Thi...

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Episode 24

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 18:15 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 27, Who's Magna Carter. Barabal, with Letta Belli's help, has brought Colonel Begg and Malvina to court to test the contract, knowing what the likely outcome would be, but having an ulterior motive. And Chapter 28, Billy Raven and Little Berry. Barabal needs to find out more about the c...

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Episode 23

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 05:02 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 26, Colonel Mesmer. Lorcan hopes his plan to provide baths for the women will curry him favour with Barabal. For his part, Colonel Begg hopes Lorcan's baths will pacify the women and deliver him a pliant crowd, one which will be receptive to his charm, his eloquence, his charisma.

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Episode 22

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 04:58 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 25, What About the Privies? The women are wilting under the heat. The lack of amenities only adds to their discomfort and irritation. Into the hornet's nest goes Colonel Begg. Barabal is not the only one ready to challenge the Colonel. And just when all seems to be lost...

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Episode 21

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 03:46 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 24, So Close to Paydirt. Colonel Begg bolsters Lorcan's spirits following the meat market disaster, then Malvina arrives to inspect Begg's new office. She is ready to take as much control as she can.

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Episode 20

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 03:43 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 23, The Meat Market. Surprises abound in the Fairview Saloon when Lorcan leads Barabal into the bar, ostensibly to meet a couple of friends. He has brought her to a meat market, in her view, a room of excited, salivating miners. In Colonel Clement E. Begg’s expert hands, her appearance b...

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Episode 19

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 03:39 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 22, To Hunt with the Hounds. Malvina finally comes clean with her motives for her bizarre behaviour in the Fairview Hotel Bar the previous evening. Colonel Clement E. Begg finds her amusing. At first. Then Lorcan, too, has his chance to explain himself to the Colonel. Will either Malvina...

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Episode 18

Marry Me! Inc. - December 17, 2013 03:36 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 21, Daddy, Daddy. Malvina appears at the bar where, with Lorcan as her accomplice, she launches her scheme to gain some control over Colonel Clement E. Begg's auction. The problem is that no one understands what on earth she is doing; not the gambler with the walrus moustache who becomes...

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Episode 17

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:51 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 20, Just a Farm Girl. Colonel Clement E. Begg, while making preparations to meet "his Women", is interrupted by Count Ozera with threatening news about his and Barabal's plans. When they later meet in the Fairview dining room, Lorcan is next door in the bar. There, he and the rest of the...

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Episode 16

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 19, Hide or Wear Armour. In good spirits the women - and Lorcan - finally arrive in Dawson, where the women are to be auctioned off. Lorcan says "goodbye" to Captain Zhukov and hops off the sternwheeler to find his way among the throngs and chaos of newcomers. But the women get a shock w...

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Episode 15

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:43 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 18, The Marooning of Silas Neto. Although Letta Belli and a few of the other women heading to Dawson know it, Barabal, Malvina, and the Count have no idea that Lorcan is onboard with them on the sternwheeler, the SS Monarch, as it is about to head up the Yukon River toward the gold field...

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Episode 14

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:40 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 17, I Am Not in Love. As he now sees Barabal slipping away, for help Lorcan turns to Yoska, the man who helped Count Ozera in the latter's scheme to discredit him. Yoska, a man who does not lack generosity or compassion, offers him a solution, but it is one that requires Lorcan's continu...

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Episode 13

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:38 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 16, A Phoney Is a Phoney. Lorcan becomes convinced that Count Cezar Emil Ozera, with whom Barabal seems to have become infatuated, is not who he says he is, and devises a plan to take advantage of information which has come his way.

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Episode 12

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 15, A Sad and Tortured Life. Count Cezar Emil Ozera, after welcoming the women, sends Barabal and Malvina on a mission to Seattle to satisfy an urgent need. This trip changes the two women's relationship to each other and their view of their grand adventure, at least for the time being, ...

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Episode 11

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:32 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 14, Count Cezar Emil Ozera. Lorcan is off to meet the man in charge of Marry Me! Inc.'s affairs in Seattle, Cezar Emil Ozera, the twelfth Count of Ploiesti, as Tavish McIsaac, the somewhat dull-witted employee of Marry Me! Inc. cannot quite understand what Lorcan is doing with the group....

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Episode 10

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:29 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 13, And Out of His a Briar. We left Lorcan on the Glasgow, Montana, train station platform looking for Barabal, with Malvina and the group's new acquaintance, Letta Belli watching with great interest from the train. In this first episode of Part 2, Under the Gun, we discover whether Lorc...

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Episode 9

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:25 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 12, The Great Northern Flyer. Barabal and Malvina board the Great Northern Flyer, one of the trans-continental work-horses, heading for Seattle and beyond and what they hope will be a brighter future. Lorcan is in tow in his new role, but discovers soon enough that life with Barabal is n...

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Episode 8

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:21 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 11, Man-Servant. After the convolutions of Chicago -- the Collision, the neighbourhood toughs, the Italian grocer, the glimpse of the cadaverous man with the black top hat, and the eye-opening respite in the Gilded Parrot -- Barabal's and Malvina's -- and now Lorcan's -- futures become e...

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Episode 7

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:19 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 10, The Gilded Parrot. Barabal and Lorcan, have found temporary refuge in a seedy quarter of downtown Chicago, in a house which Barabal believes might be a refuge for homeless young women, like herself. There, in the Gilded Parrot, Madame La Douceur and her girls, Yvette, Georgia, and Na...

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Episode 6

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 9, The Return of Father Jim. After becoming separated from her Aunt Malvina, and after the collision with Lorcan, Barabal finds herself abandoned and alone in the grip of two Chicago toughs who have more on their minds than hospitality, while Lorcan, his own needs in mind, has run off wi...

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Episode 5

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:08 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 8, Chicago. Barabal and Malvina leave new York heading west as they begin what Malvina hopes will be their escape from poverty, and on the day of the collision (Chapter One) they arrive exhausted in Chicago. Meanwhile Lorcan, already in Chicago, starts his day in a manner to which he has...

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Episode 4

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 23:02 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 6, Father James O'Doherty. We now shift to Montreal to where Lorcan grew up. There we see what role Father James O'Doherty played in shaping Lorcan's (and Barabal's) fate. Chapter 7, Lorcan's Luck. Lorcan's life took a turn after leaving Father Jim's care. It was during this time of bru...

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Episode 3

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 22:57 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 5, Rev. George Carring and Col. C. E. Begg. Reverend George Carring and Colonel Clement E. Begg meet by chance on a ferry while crossing beautiful Lake Champlain. They are each just reading about fabulous gold discoveries in the Klondike, which is in an unheard of corner of the Yukon Ter...

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Episode 2

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 22:47 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Chapter 3. Barabal and her aunt, Malvina MacPherson embark in Glasgow on their grand journey to fulfill the dreams each has about New York and a new life. On the ship they meet Marvin and Mike, one of whom has a profound influence over their futures. Chapter 4. Barabal and Malvina settle in New...

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Episode 1

Marry Me! Inc. - December 16, 2013 22:27 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Introduction to Marry Me! Inc. Chapter 1, The Collision. We begin Marry Me! Inc by witnessing the sudden and fateful meeting of two of the principal characters, Lorcan Farrell and Barabal Abbot. Each is on the run. Each impedes the other's escape. Chapter 2, Reverend Bryce MacAulay. After Lorc...

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