"There is a fourth place, Viscount;
will you come too?"
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"I would love it well," replies Florac, "but I am here in faction. My
cousin and seigneur M. le Duc d'Ivry is coming all the way from Bagneres
de Bigorre. He says he counts on me:--affaires mon cher, affaires
d'etat."
"How pleased the duchess will be! Easy with that bag!" shouts Clive. "How
pleased the princess will be!" In truth he hardly knew what he was
saying.
"Vous croyez; vous croyez," says M. de Florac. "As you have a fourth
place, I know who had best take it."
"And who is that?" asked the young traveller.
Lord Kew and Barnes, Esq., of Newcome, came out of the Hotel de Hollande
at this moment. Barnes slunk back, seeing Jack Belsize's hairy face. Kew
ran over the bridge. "Good-bye, Clive. Good-bye, Jack." "Good-bye, Kew."
It was a great handshake. Away goes the postillion blowing his horn, and
young Hannibal has left Capua behind him.
CHAPTER XXXI
Madame la Duchesse
In one of Clive Newcome's letters from Baden, the young man described to
me, with considerable humour and numerous illustrations as his wont was,
a great lady to whom he was presented at that watering-place by his
friend Lord Kew.
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