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THE MARQUIS'S CREED.
Dormer Colville smiled doubtfully.

He was too polite, it seemed, to be sceptical, and by his attitude expressed a readiness to be convinced as much from indifference as by reasoning.
"It is intolerable," said the Marquis de Gemosac, "that a man of your understanding should be misled by a few romantic writers in the pay of the Orleans." "I am not misled, Marquis; I am ignorant," laughed Colville.

"It is not always the same thing." Monsieur de Gemosac threw away his cigarette and turned eagerly toward his companion.
"Listen," he said.

"I can convince you in a few words." And Colville leaned back against the weather-worn seat with the air of one prepared to give a post-prandial attention.
"Such a man was found as you yourself suggest.