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Count Hannibal

CHAPTER X
18/23

Would you like to see how welcome you'll be at the wedding ?" And she flaunted a piece of paper before his eyes.
"Give it me," he said.
She let him seize it the while she shrugged her shoulders.

"It's your affair, not mine," she said.

"See it if you like, and keep it if you like.

Cousin Hannibal wastes few words." That was true, for the paper contained but a dozen or fifteen words, and an initial by way of signature.
"I may need your shaveling to-morrow afternoon.

Send him, and Tignonville in safeguard if he come .-- H." "I can guess what use he has for a priest," she said.


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