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] 16 #r#E SKJUTS-BOY.
"I-Ieigho ! beautiful lady, how rapidly you work; buç whaç
do you intend to make of that ?"
"A portfolio."
"For your husband ?"
## ##’0. »
"Perhaps for your o# uoe #"
"Stfil less."
"You do not venture an#hing by confiding fo me such
secrets. A pretty lady does not make an#h#g for ber husband,
and not for#one might think something else by if, that you
mmt certa#ly confess."
"Will#gly."
"Indeed ! if I should think thut you were working the pot-
folio for me, for instance ?"
"Then you would be mistaken."
"I ara son T to hear that; but old people are prone fo say
things they ought not; corne, y# m#mt tell me, for whom tha#
work is intended."
"I ca#ot ter you."
"Perhaps for z #voured loyer #"
"Possibly."
"We must now give my #fe rime fo &ess," said Wh’én, who
had, in the mean rime, been conversing with Iwr. "I hear
somebody ia the hall. If is surely h[r. de Goesse. Wit#u
ha#-an-hour we shal] be ready fo star#, dcar Vir#nîa."
Vk#M# nodded, looked ai the clock, and cont#ued working
af ber embroide#.
Let us now look af the new personage whom Wir6u #tro-
duced fo our hero. If is the wo#hy Ch#berla# de Goesoe.
Upon a pak of attenuatcd spinoee-shanks, reposed a belly of the
shape and size of a hogshead. Above tha# rose the body,
scarcely longer t#n three inches, and thus one after another,
#t bre#t, the ro#md shoulders, of a yard in width, the crane’s
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