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A Splendid Hazard

CHAPTER XIII
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I should like to stay here for a hundred years." "You would miss us all very much then," merrily.

"And Napoleon's treasure would have gone in and out of innumerable pockets!" "Do you really and truly believe that we shall bring home a single franc of it ?" facing her with incredulous eyes.
"Really and truly.

And why not?
Treasures have been found before.
Fie on you for a Doubting Thomas!" "We sometimes go many miles to find, in the end, that the treasure was all the time under our very eyes." "Hyperbole!" But she looked down at the lichen again and began pealing it off the stone.

She thought of a duke she knew.

At this instant he would have been telling her that she was the most beautiful woman since Helen.


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