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Count Bunker

CHAPTER VIII
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The German fashions so much in vogue at Court are transforming the very speech of your nobility.

Don't you sometimes notice it ?" Thus directly appealed to, Mr.Gallosh became manifestly perplexed.
"Yes--yes, you're right in a way," he pronounced cautiously.

"I suppose they do that.

But will ye not take a seat?
This is my launch.

Hi! Robert, give his lordship a hand on board!" Two mariners and a second tall footman assisted the guests to embark, and presently they were cutting the waters of the loch at a merry pace.
In the prow, like youth, the Baron insisted upon sitting with folded arms and a gloomy aspect; and as his nerve was so patently disturbed, the Count decidedly approved of an arrangement which left his host and himself alone together in the stern.


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