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The American

CHAPTER XVII
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"What is it some English poet says about consistency?
It's a flower or a star, or a jewel.

Yours has the beauty of all three!" But he agreed to see Newman again on the morrow, after the details of his meeting with M.Stanislas Kapp should have been arranged.
In the course of the day Newman received three lines from him, saying that it had been decided that he should cross the frontier, with his adversary, and that he was to take the night express to Geneva.

He should have time, however, to dine with Newman.

In the afternoon Newman called upon Madame de Cintre, but his visit was brief.

She was as gracious and sympathetic as he had ever found her, but she was sad, and she confessed, on Newman's charging her with her red eyes, that she had been crying.


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