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Rh "Then your excellency is going "

"To the hotel."

"Casa Pastrini!" said the cicerone to the coachman; and the carriage drove rapidly on.

Ten minutes afterward the baron entered his apartment, and Peppino stationed himself on the bench outside the door of the hotel, after having whispered something in the ear of one of the descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, whom we noticed at the beginning of the chapter, who immediately ran down the road leading to the Capitol at his fullest speed. Danglars was tired and sleepy; he therefore went to bed,