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The old servant who opened the door eyedfresh their respects Their respects, indeed! They would bore him to death if he had to see them all The old woman inferred, probably froree

"I think he is"

He was very much at home in his overheated study, where he sat wrapped up in a dressing-gown and keeping one eye shut to strengthen the other

After a nized me, and held out his hand

"Ah! ht, sir; it'son"

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"Yes, yes, Mouillart with a t, isn't it?"

"No, with a d"

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"No, sir; but I have no conscientious objections"

"Marry young Marriage is the salvation of young es"

"Heiresses, yes As to their looks, at this distance--"

"Yes, I understand, at this distance of course you can't tell You should do as I did; o and see I went all the way to Forez myself to look for my wife"

"Madame Flaht, fourteen days exactly, in the es is a nice town"

"Yes, in surand action I won there One of ainst me We had both written opinions, diametrically opposed, of course But I beat hi left of hinificent case! My notes et them out for you"