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"'"Have you, then, so much confidence in your servant that you can intrust him with a secret you will not allow me to know?"

"'"Our coachman is a member of the club," said the president; "we shall be driven by a State-Councillor"

"'"Then we run another risk," said the general, laughing, "that of being upset" We insert this joke to prove that the general was not in the least coly When they were seated in the carriage the president reeneral of his proed, to which he ht he saw the general make an attempt to remove the handkerchief, and reeneral The carriage stopped at an alley leading out of the Rue Saint-Jacques The general alighted, leaning on the arnity he was not aware, considering hih the alley, ht of stairs, and entered the asseun The members, apprised of the sort of presentation which was to be , were all in attendance When in the eneral was invited to ree, he did so immediately, and was surprised to see so many well-known faces in a society of whose existence he had till then been ignorant They questioned him as to his senti, that the letters froht to have infor, "My father was a royalist; they need not have asked his sentiments, which ell known"

"And hence," said Villefort, "arose my affection for your father, my dear M Franz Opinions held in coain," said the old ht to make him speak more explicitly, but M de Quesnel replied that he wished first to knohat they wanted with him He was then informed of the contents of the letter from the Island of Elba, in which he was recommended to the club as a man ould be likely to advance the interests of their party One paragraph spoke of the return of Bonaparte and promised another letter and further details, on the arrival of the Pharaon belonging to the shipbuilder Morrel, of Marseilles, whose captain was entirely devoted to the eht to have relied as on a brother, nance When the reading was finished, he remained silent, with knitted brows