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206 grew still more ashy, and his inscrutable black eyes blazed with a still more somber splendor. Colonel Corbin, quite unmoved by his little rencontre with "that infernal flunkey," as he described the worthy Bridge afterward, advanced and said, with his most magnificent air:

"Allow me, Romaine, to announce a lady with whom I imagine you to have the honor of a previous acquaintance—Madame de Fonblanque."

"The devil I have!" replied Mr. Romaine.