[Arsene Lupin by Edgar Jepson]@TWC D-Link bookArsene Lupin CHAPTER XVIII 25/30
"But if it's ten years old it certainly isn't the photograph of the Duke." "But it's like him ?" said Guerchard. "Oh, yes, it's like the Duke as he is now--at least, it's a little like him.
But it's not like the Duke as he was ten years ago.
He has changed so," said Germaine. "Oh, has he ?" said Guerchard. "Yes; there was that exhausting journey of his--and then his illness. The doctors gave up all hope of him, you know." "Oh, did they ?" said Guerchard. "Yes; at Montevideo.
But his health is quite restored now." The door opened and the millionaire and the Duke came into the room.
M. Gournay-Martin set his bag upon the table, unlocked it, and with a solemn air took out the case which held the coronet.
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