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"Half-a-dozen duels! Oh, Arenta!"
"About that number--more or less--before and after the Van Heemskirk incident Look at him next Sunday, and then try and believe that he was the topmost leader in all the fashionable follies, until he went to the war People say it is General Washington--"
"General Washington?"
"That has changed hiether, and I do believe the proprieties are catching If evil is to be taken in bad coood in the presence of all that is moral and respectable? At any rate, who is now elica says, we must all pay our respects to the Hydes, if we desire our own caps to set straight Cornelia, shall I tell you why you are working so close to thethis afternoon?"
"You are going to say so I would rather not hear, Arenta"
"Truth is wholesoreeable; and the truth is, you expect Lieutenant Hyde to pass But he will not do so I saw hi up the river road He was bound for Hyde Manor, I am sure Now, Cornelia, you need not move your frame; for no one will disturb you, and I wish to tell you some of my affairs"
"About your lovers?"
"Yes I have met a certain French marquis, who is attached to the Count de Moustier's embassy I met him at intervals all last winter, and to- day, I have a love letter from him--a real love letter--and he desires to askto say to Madame Kippon"
"But you would not ht, Arenta"
"No lishht of at all; while Frenchreat American ladies; they are full of French nobles"
"But they are exiles, for the most part very poor, and devoted to the idea of monarchy"
"Ah, but my Frenchman is different He is rich, he is in the confidence of the present French government, and he adores republican principles Indeed he wore at Lady Griffin's, last week, his red cap of Liberty, and looked quite distinguished in it"
"I am astonished that Lady Griffin per to do Only the san-culottes, s"
"I think it was a very brave thing to do--and Lady Griffin, with her English prejudices and aristocratic notions, had to tolerate it He is very tall and dark, and he was dressed in scarlet, with a long black satin vest; and youhair was very i"