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Doctor Claudius, A True Story

CHAPTER XIII
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Whereat the intelligent Clementine carefully examined the name of the sender, inscribed on a card which lay in the top of the box.

Mr.Barker knew better than to send flowers anonymously.

He wanted all the credit he could get.

The Countess swept out of the room.
At the door of the sitting-room she was met by a young man, who bent low to kiss her extended hand, and greeted her with a manner which was respectful indeed, but which showed that he felt himself perfectly at ease in her society.
Nicolai Alexandrewitch, whom we will call simply Count Nicholas, was the only brother of Margaret's dead husband.

Like Alexis, he had been a soldier in a guard regiment; Alexis had been killed at Plevna, and Nicholas had succeeded to the title and the estates, from which, however, a considerable allowance was paid to the Countess as a jointure.
Nicholas was a handsome man of five or six and twenty, of middle height, swarthy complexion, and compact figure.


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