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The Last Hope

CHAPTER VIII
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Firstly, she probably has none.

Secondly, should she have one she will certainly have a counterfeit, which she will dangle before your eyes, and you will seize it.
Dormer Colville might almost be considered to belong to the world of which Captain and Mrs.Duncan were such brilliant ornaments.

But he did not so consider himself.

For their world was essentially British, savoured here and there by a French count or so, at whose person and title the French aristocracy of undoubted genuineness looked askance.
Dormer Colville counted his friends among these latter.

In fact, he moved in those royalist circles who thought that there was little to choose between the Napoleonic and the Orleanist regime.


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