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CHAPTER XIX.
SEPARATION.
THE lieutenant-colonel, #vith his nose ai least three inches
]figher, strutted over fo the assembly-room the #r#xt morning.
Was hot the father of such a daughter an impoloEa#., t ##/#a# ? And,
aside from that, there was contained in )Ir. de Goesse’s note the
undoubted meaning, that he #vîshed, after the lapse of a short
Cime, fo renew the acquaintance. With proud stel#s , the lieute-
nant-colonel ascendcd the stairs, and half-opened the door of the
saloon, and looking through, saw that a few gentlcmen from the
city were the only occupants.
"Ay, ay! thcre is no one here," said the lieutenant-colonel,
¢hrowing an aristocratie look round the room.
" 0 yes, #ve are here," replied the city tax-collector, Halt#,o-rén,
looking with his lively little cyes sharply ai the lieutenant-
colonel i who replied, with his peculiar smîle,
"I sought for Baron G - , and Count A.–;" after #vhich
he retired, and directed his course over the bridge, to see his
family, before he went fo the bflliard-room. Within the inner
room he met his wife, whose eyes were red with weeping, and
fatigued with night-watching.
"Well, Sophia, how is the boy? I believe you will kill your-
self, by being up so laie every night. But #vhat do you think
of the story about De Goesse, and the note which I sent to
you #"
"Alas! do hOt talk fo me of that crazy fool. Al] I can s#y
about it is, that I thank God that he bas gone away. You can-
hOt think what a bad nighç we had last night, and how dear the
boy is fo me."
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