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'Whether the Prince and the Eested the husband

'He would be sure to o yourself you'd learn the truth in a o into the hall and you'll soon kno it all is;--I'd do it in a ood-natured man in the world, but he did not like the job 'What can be the objection?' asked his wife

'Go to a uests are coo yourself! I don't just see it, Ju'

'Guests! What nonsense! The Emperor and all the Royal Fa, probably, never happened before, and never will happen again If you don't go, Da and so He made many remonstrances It was a confounded bore He hated emperors and he hated princes He hated the whole box and dice of that sort of thing! He 'wished to goodness' that he had dined at his club and sent word up home that the affair was to be off But at last he submitted and allowed his wife to leave the roo for a cab The cab was sent for and announced, but Sir Daar

It was past ten when he left his own house On arriving in Grosvenor Square he could at once see that the party was going on The house was illuminated There was a concourse of servants round the door, and half the square was already blocked up with carriages

It was not without delay that he got to the door, and when there he saw the royal liveries There was no doubt about the party The Emperor and the Princes and the Princesses were all there As far as Sir Damask could then perceive, the dinner had been quite a success But again there was a delay in getting away, and it was nearly eleven before he could reach hoht,' said he to his wife 'They're there, safe enough'

'You are sure that the E seen hiestaffe was present at this moment, and could not but resent what appeared to be a most unseemly slur cast upon her friends 'I don't understand it at all,' she said 'Of course the Emperor is there Everybody has known for the lastof it, Julia?'