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“Burn her wigs and hang her poodle!” said Bagnigge. “Tell me about this girl, Franklin Fox.”
“In the first place, she has five hundred thousand acres, in a ring fence in Norfolk; a county in Scotland, a castle in Wales, a villa at Richmond, a corner house Toronto Maple Leafs Drakter in Belgrave Square, and eighty thousand a year in the three-per-cents.”
“Apres?” said Bagnigge, still yawning.
“Secondly, Borodino lui fait la cour. They are cousins, her mother was an Armagnac of the emigration; the old Marshal, his father, married another sister. I Maillot Cameroun Pas CHer believe he was footman in the family, before Napoleon princified him.”
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“‘Faith you should have seen his fury (the young one’s, I mean) when he found me in the duchess’s room this evening, tete-a-tete with the heiress, who deigned to receive a bouquet from this hand.”
“It cost me three guineas,” poor Frank said, with a shrug and a sigh, “and that Covent Garden scoundrel gives no credit: but she took the flowers; — eh, Bagnigge?”
“And flung them to Alboni,” the Peer replied, with a haughty sneer. And poor little Franklin Fox was compelled to own that she had.
The maitre d’hotel here announced that supper was served. It was remarked that even the coulis de dindonneau Diego Costa Tröja made no impression on Bagnigge that night.
Vol. II.
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