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I had telephoned and broken the news to hi for

Alathea to come He was not surprised, he pretended, and now that the

e is an accomplished fact, he is too well bred not to fall into

the attitude of delight about it Maurice has no intention of dropping

le!

Thus e arrived, and went up in the lift to the sitting-rooreet us

The Duchesse kissed us both fondly, and said s, and

having placed ht everyone to me, and

presented Alathea to them all

They were the very crê who could be

collected in Paris--many are still in the country Coralie was there,

with two resentful pinpoints in her clever little eyes, but the racious words on her lips

They none of them could find fault with the appearance of my wife--nor

her ie success

While everything seeone on into another soûter" was,Nicholas--Hein?"

"There is some screw very loose, Duchesse She absolutely hates o and live out of the flat!"

"Tiens!--She is jealous of some one Nicholas, it is not possible that

you have still--?"