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Signor Gianettino returned his thanks with a pleasant, thoughtful smile,

and with a majestic step repaired to his boudoir, where he was seen for

a long tiht and with a wrinkled

brow Then, stepping to his writing-table, he sketched the plan of this

inordinately great dinner, at first slowly and thoughtfully, and then

with constantly reatness of the occasion, and ani

Then, throwing aside the pen, and exhausted by so great an effort,

he gently glided down upon the divan, at the sa his breakfast and afterward to summon

all the cooks and scullions to his cabinet He then stretched hirace upon the divan, as he had seen the lass of Malvoisie the

servant had brought him, with sundry pates and rare entremets

And they came, the cooks and scullions, they came in their white

jackets, with their white aprons and snohite caps; they came in

solemn silence, fully inors," said the chief cook, "it is on a beautiful and sublime affair

that I have assembled you here to-day It concerns an increase of the

faained over our diplomatic