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Frances Waldeaux

CHAPTER X
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"It is in some old corner; it has a vast, mysterious, feudal air, I fancy.

You will hold a little court in it, and sometimes let a poor American artist from Pond City in to hang on the edge of the crowd and stare at the haute noblesse." "Don't be absurd, Jean," said Miss Vance.
"I am quite serious.

I think an American girl like Lucy, with her beauty and her money, will be welcomed by these German nobles as a white swan among ducks.

She ought to take her place and hold it." Jean's black eyes snapped and the blood flamed up her cheeks.

"If I were she I'd make my money tell! I'd buy poor King Ludwig's residence at Binderhof, with the cascades and jewelled peacocks and fairy grottos, for my country seat.


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