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"RETURN, O SHULAMITE!".
Almost the first person that Gaston recognised in London was Cluny Vosse.

He had been to Victoria Station to see a friend off by the train, and as he was leaving, Gaston and he recognised each other.

The lad's greeting was a little shy until he saw that Gaston was cool and composed as usual--in effect, nothing had happened.

Cluny was delighted, and opened his mind: "They'd kicked up a deuce of a row in the papers, and there'd been no end of talk; but he didn't see what all the babble was about, and he'd said so again and again to Lady Dargan." "And Lady Dargan, Cluny ?" asked Gaston quietly.