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and forget you, took Lord Brockelbank from Odette!"

"Vieux coquin! Va!" and Maurice patted me on the back--

They were enchanted withto return to Paris soon and thankinto a nuisance and the quicker it was over

the better for everyone(!) Then he beat about the bush for a little longer and at last began to

grow nearer the vital subject!-He had seen some of my Mont Aubin relations--fortunately for me, they

have been far from Paris in this last year--and they had anxiously asked

hi with hed--

"I alad my mother was an only child and they are none of theht to bore ood

works at Biarritz--I auerite's convalescent home is

a marvel! I have sent her frequent donations"

Then Maurice plunged in--

"You are not--becoled in any ith your secretary, are you

Mon aet angry at anything he

said--so I was ready for this