As the Count did not come in, I have written here.

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The Count has come.

He sat down beside me, and said in his smoothest voice as he opened two letters, "The Szgany has given me these, of which, though I know not whence they come, I shall, of course, take care.

See!"-- He must have looked at it.--"One is from you, and to my friend Peter Hawkins.