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A Gentleman of France

CHAPTER VIII
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'It fell from this window.' 'It was a jest, sir,' she answered stubbornly.

But I could see that, with all her pride, she was alarmed; her face was troubled, and there were tears in her eyes.

And this rendered me under the circumstances only the more persistent.
'I have the velvet here, madame,' I said.

'You must tell me more about it.' She looked at me with a weightier impulse of anger than she had yet exhibited.

'I do not think you know to whom you are speaking,' she said, breathing fast.


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