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134 TttE $KJUTS-BOY.
« Yes, if is certainly an unpleasant circumstance; but if you
do hot eat up the oysters» s-]Au and hah; I may perhaps retm’n
for my share."
« I)o so, dearest asscssor, we shall remain sitting here together
but a few hours only, if if pleases, until rive o’clock, when we
shall drive out, and I shall see the most–mos#–"
Wirén hastened away without waiting for the conclusion of
the chamberlain’s speech. When he arrived af the corner of
Long-street," he met ##ademoiselle 17yquist,. who was coming
from the minerai spring, and with the words, "Ah! dearest
Mr. Wir#n, bave the kindness fo lend me your arm, that I may
be able fo get over this outrageous hole," she clung fast fo Wirén,
who never had less desire to show ber his attentions than ai that
present moment.
"My honoured Lady Nyquist, I bave, t5 be sincere, so little
rime, that I will Le obliged to walk too rapidly for you."
"O, on the contrary, I ara very much in a hurry myself. #VIy
most întimate friend, the Dowager Countess P–––, is waiting
for me fo take chocolate» and I ara already almost too late.
But I had first necessarily.to make a visit this morning af De
Dressen’s, and see how the people are doing there. If is cer-
tainly no great joke, for a person who lires next door fo the
bathing-house, fo mal#e such a long walk fo the north side. But,
0 Lord» one must take just such a residence as they are able fo,
and lï[eaven only knows where these people bave round the
mormy fo go fo a bathing-place, lVfy friend, the countess, of
whom I bave just spoken, bas contïdcd fo me, as something
ah-eady known–although, as a marrer of course, if would hot be
agreeable for a lady of ber tank fo trouble herself about the
affairs of people so much beneath her–that the lieutenant-colonel
has borrowed the r"oney upon his estate, which» however, is said
hot tobe very extensive. Alas! if is horrible, my dear assessor,
how much people are dut)ed by the vanity of the world. A#ide
from this, he is hot # very stupid man, that Dressen, but lfis ’
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