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St. Martin’s Summer

CHAPTER XXI
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You will remember that she was under my mother's tutelage.

The girl, however, could not be constrained.
She suborned one of our men to bear a letter to Paris for her, and in answer to it the Queen sent a hot-headed, rash blunderer down to Dauphiny to procure her liberation.

He lies now at the bottom of the moat of Condillac." Florimond's face had assumed a look of horror and indignation.
"Do you dare tell me this ?" he cried.
"Dare ?" answered Marius, with an ugly laugh.

"Men enough have died over this affair already.

That fellow Garnache left some bodies on our hands last night before he set out for another world himself.


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