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The Cornet of Horse

CHAPTER 18: The Court of Versailles
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If you want to write to her, enclose a note to me.

Trust me, she shall have it.
"There, do not stop to thank me.

I hear horses' hoofs.

Gallop away, please; it would ruin all were you caught here." Rupert pressed the hands the two ladies held out to him to his lips, mounted his horse, and rode furiously back to Versailles, where he arrived just in time to leave again for Paris at the hour beyond which their stay was not to be delayed..


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