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at this table' 'Well! but the report,' said Madame Clairval, 'let

me understand the subject of your distress' 'Ah! the subject of my

distress,' replied Mada pardon, madahad the presuiven rise to a report, that he had declared hi such a report must be! You, I

knoill feel foreven the ru indeed, my poor friend!' said Madame Clairval 'You o;' as she said which,

she turned her attention upon another part of the corave spectator of the scene, now fearing

he should be unable to sh, that convulsed him, walked

abruptly away 'I perceive you do not know,' said the lady who sat near Mada of is Madame Clairval's

nephew!' 'Ian to

perceive, that she had been totally ment of

Valancourt, and to praise him aloud with as much servility, as she had

before censured hinity