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The days go slowly on, ood friend

Nelson arrived on Monday and took charge of the affair He was entirely

aware of the Bulteel story, it was the great scandal of twenty-five

years ago He expressed no opinion as tointo such a faence I ht was necessary Then he

spoke of arrangements for possible children, and fixed that, too I

wonder what she will say when she reads that part! I have settled with

the Duchesse, who is entering into the spirit of the thing with her

usual delicious whi she shall ask about ten of our principal mutual friends to come

in the afternoon, and she will present Alathea to them, and if anyone

makes cohter of

an old English friend, and even if Coralie recognizes her as the girl

ith me at Versailles, she will not dare to say a word about any

protegée of the Duchesse's She isreceived at the Hotel de Courville herself on sufferance only

because of her birth and fa to wonder what Alathea would prefer to do? I don't want to

see her until the cereed that I should n the contract there on the day before the wedding,