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Rh was the successful candidate for his favours. Hitherto their harmony has been perfect—each appreciated the other; and it had been settled between them, that the first dinner after our marriage was to be a triumph. This morning Chloe sent to ask an audience; it was granted, and he entered my dressing-room. Chloe is a tall meagre-looking individual, just embodying the popular idea of a Frenchman. "Mon Dieu! madame!" exclaimed he, all but throwing himself at my feet in the most theatrical of attitudes, (Titus, for example, in a scene of despair with Berenice,) "mine honour is in your hands—I appeal to your feelings—you see before you de most miserable of humanity—ma gloire is the sacrifice of his lordship's prejudice! He will not hear reason, but he will hear you." "Thank you," said I, laughing. "Ah, madame!" he exclaimed, "I do only