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Beauchamp’s Career

CHAPTER VII
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Renee will have a fine hotel in Paris.

But I am eccentric: I have read in our old Fabliaux of December and May.

Say the marquis is November, say October; he is still some distance removed from the plump Spring month.

And we in our family have wits and passions.
In fine, a bud of a rose in an old gentleman's button-hole! it is a challenge to the whole world of youth; and if the bud should leap?
Enough of this matter, friend Nevil; but sometimes a friend must allow himself to be bothered.

I have perfect confidence in my sister, you see; I simply protest against her being exposed to...


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