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A Hungarian Nabob

CHAPTER XVII
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The gentle fallow deer already knew their mistress well.
Her pockets were always full of sugar almonds, and they drew near to eat the dainty morsels out of her hand, and accompanied her up and down the walk.

Suddenly the rumble of a carriage was audible on the high-road, and Karpathy, looking over the fence, exclaimed-- "Look, look! those are the Szentirmay horses!" Fanny almost collapsed.

The Squire felt her arm tremble.
"I trod on a snail," said his wife, turning pale.
"You silly thing, what's there to be afraid of?
I knew that Flora would come here to seek you out.

Oh, how greatly that lady loves you! But, indeed, who would not love you ?" But Fanny could see very well, from afar, that in the carriage which was approaching sat not a woman but a man.

Karpathy's eyes were weak.


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