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Arsene Lupin

CHAPTER I
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Gournay-Martin has the honour to inform you of the marriage of his daughter Germaine to the Duke of Charmerace." She wrote steadily on, adding envelope after envelope to the pile ready for the post, which rose in front of her.

But now and again, when the flushed and laughing girls who were playing lawn-tennis on the terrace, raised their voices higher than usual as they called the score, and distracted her attention from her work, her gaze strayed through the open window and lingered on them wistfully; and as her eyes came back to her task she sighed with so faint a wistfulness that she hardly knew she sighed.

Then a voice from the terrace cried, "Sonia! Sonia!" "Yes.

Mlle.

Germaine ?" answered the writing girl.
"Tea! Order tea, will you ?" cried the voice, a petulant voice, rather harsh to the ear.
"Very well, Mlle.


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