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think of it!"

"Then try to get the idea into your thick head that Miss Sharp is

Marie--and behave accordingly--That is how I look at her"

Maurice promised that he would, and our talk turned to the Duchesse--he

had seen her at a cross country station as he ca week--This thought gave me comfort Everyone

would be back by the fifteenth of October he assured ain--

"You will be quite well enough to dine out, Nicholas--Or if not you must

move to the Ritz with me, so that you at least have entertainment on the

spot, Mon cher!"

We spoke then of the book--Furniture was a really refined and

interesting subject for ed to read

the proofs, he averred

When he had left me, I lay back in my chair and asked myself what had

happened to me?--that Maurice and all that lot seemed such miles and

miles away from me--as miles and miles as they would have seemed in

their triviality, e used to discuss important questions in "Pop"

at Eton