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d'Ivry and his next-of-kin.
Political differences, private differences--a long story. The Duke, who
had been wild himself, could not pardon the Vicomte de Florac for being
wild. Efforts at reconciliation had been made which ended unsuccessfully.
The Vicomte de Florac had been allowed for a brief space to be intimate
with the chief of his family, and then had been dismissed for being too
intimate. Right or wrong, the Duke was jealous of all young men who
approached the Duchesse. "He is suspicious," Madame de Florac indignantly
said, "because he remembers: and he thinks other men are like himself."
The Vicomte discreetly said, "My cousin has paid me the compliment to be
jealous of me," and acquiesced in his banishment with a shrug.
During the emigration the old Lord Kew had been very kind to exiles, M.
d'Ivry amongst the number; and that nobleman was anxious to return to all
Lord Kew's family when they came to France the hospitality which he had
received himself in England.


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