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Cosmopolis

CHAPTER VI
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It is incomprehensible."....

On entering the carriage which was to bear them to their interview, he heard Dorsenne say to the coachman: "Palais Savorelli." "That is the final blow," said he, raising his arm and clenching his fist.

"The adventurer occupies the Pretender's house, the house of the Stuarts."....

He repeated: "The house of the Stuarts!" and then lapsed into a silence which the writer felt to be laden with more storminess than his last denunciation.

He did not emerge from his meditations until ushered into the salon of the ci-devant jeweller, now a grand seigneur--into one of the salons, rather, for there were five.


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