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immediately start on your way. He is riding out in a boat on
the sea with a loaded gun in his hands. Perhaps you may hear
the next minute the report of the gun from one of the islands
over there. Alas! it is a fearful time in which we live; and,
if we did not have the excellent evening journal for our
consolation, one would bave to die of tediousness in this hole."
While Mademoiselle Nyquist continued fo chatter in this
way, she hurried off; and her shawl and vei] fluttered still more
around ber tall, lank, bony figure. When she arrived at De
Dressen’s house, it was quite a hard matter for our mademoiselle
to force a visit where she had been refused a few hours before;
but, cost what it might, she was determined to find out, at least,
whether De Goesse had been there.
She went up-stairs , and knocked at the hall-door without
success; therefore, steering straight fo the kitchen, she met the
servant-girl, cleaning fish.
"Excuse me, my child; I was here before, and had the
misfortune to lose a letter, when I took out my visiting-cards. Did
you find it?"
"No, I have not seen if."
"My God! it would be very unpleasant fo me, if I should
have lost it. Can you recollect what kind of people have been
here since I left?"
"I do not know of any one else but the lieutenant-colonel and
the Chamberlain de Goesse."
"Ah! Mr. de Goesse? Did he come immediately after I
left?"
"Yes, shortly afterward."
"Well, if he has the letter I am sure to regain it. But I
believe that your mistress does not receive any one to-day?"
"The chamberlain wished to see the lieutenant-colonel only.
My lady and young mistress are in the back room, where they
are weeping, and are almost distracted on account of the boy."
"His father is probably there, also?"
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