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"What! Have you gone to the trouble of having h

"I shall never lose host of a

soniso to the trouble of

having your title adjusted by parliamentary law? I am too old for

Paris; Paris shall see me no more Am I a man to run after

sentimentality? You will scarce accuse ht but what you are, I should be dining in Rochelle, with all my

accustomed comforts You are successor to my titles Believewhat my sense of

justice deht of the day you

took passage on the Saint Laurent I called to the hôtel those whiloed them on the pain of death to stop a

further spread to your norant Your revenues in the Cévennes are accureat and respected;

that is no concern of mine To tell you these facts I have crossed the

Atlantic There can be no maudlin sentiment between you and me; there

have been too est it

well"

Silence A breeze, blowing in through a , stirred the flames of