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... visited Madame Dupuis , and this time he found her alone . An hour afterwards Judithe , with her arm round her nurse's neck , was playfully , but at the same time anxiously , seeking to extract from her details as to this second ...
... visited Madame Dupuis , and this time he found her alone . An hour afterwards Judithe , with her arm round her nurse's neck , was playfully , but at the same time anxiously , seeking to extract from her details as to this second ...
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... visits to the Hotel de Biron had been of late both few and short . But Madame de Gontaut , who had met him the day before at the royal hunt , had taken occasion to describe to to describe to him the brilliant display of bridal presents ...
... visits to the Hotel de Biron had been of late both few and short . But Madame de Gontaut , who had met him the day before at the royal hunt , had taken occasion to describe to to describe to him the brilliant display of bridal presents ...
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... visits to the relations of both families , wearied M. de Bonneval almost beyond endurance . All social duties were irksome to to him , and he sighed after the freedom of his Vienna existence . He consoled himself however with the ...
... visits to the relations of both families , wearied M. de Bonneval almost beyond endurance . All social duties were irksome to to him , and he sighed after the freedom of his Vienna existence . He consoled himself however with the ...
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... visited those scenes , so fraught with natural beauty , so richly adorned by art , so full of history's most thrilling memories ? Each ancient palace a book , each ruin a record , each name a story . Versailles , with its brilliant and ...
... visited those scenes , so fraught with natural beauty , so richly adorned by art , so full of history's most thrilling memories ? Each ancient palace a book , each ruin a record , each name a story . Versailles , with its brilliant and ...
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... visits of friend- ship and of ceremony , took up a great por- tion of the day . Judithe , with pale cheeks and tear- ful eyes , was counting the minutes , as they went by , with feverish despond- ency . 118 THE COUNTESS DE BONNEVAL .
... visits of friend- ship and of ceremony , took up a great por- tion of the day . Judithe , with pale cheeks and tear- ful eyes , was counting the minutes , as they went by , with feverish despond- ency . 118 THE COUNTESS DE BONNEVAL .
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