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The Grey Cloak

CHAPTER XI
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And yet who can say that we both may not return, only with fame marching on ahead to announce us in that wonderfully pleasing way she has ?" "It is your illusions that I love, Victor: I see myself again in you.
Keep to your ballades, your chant-royals, your triolets; you will write an epic whenever you lose your illusions; and epics by Frenchmen are dull and sorry things.

When you go below tell Breton to unpack my portmanteau." On the wharf nearest the vessel stood two women, hooded so as to conceal their faces.
"There, Gabrielle; you have asked to see the Chevalier du Cevennes, that is he leaning against the railing." "So that is the Chevalier.

And he goes to Quebec.

In mercy's name, what business has he there ?" "You are hurting my arm, dear.

Victor would not tell me why he goes to Quebec." "Ah, if he goes out of friendship for Victor, it is well." "Is he not handsome ?" "Melancholy handsome, after the pattern of the Englishman's Hamlet.


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