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next morning the St. Paul arrived at Southampton, but Beaumanoir contrived to secure a seat in the same compartment of the boat-train, and his parting with his new friends was therefore deferred till they reached Waterloo.

He was sorely tempted to enlist the elder lady’s favor by making known his proper style and rank; though, to do her justice, Mrs. Sherman’s fondness for the peerage was largely a humorous fiction on her daughter’s part. The Senator’s wife was really a simple-minded body, with an abiding admiration for the unattainable, and the British aristocracy was naturally included in that category.

But the sight of Mr. Marker’s covert-coat hovering near them on the arrival platform checked the Duke’s intention, which the next moment was rendered unnecessary by Mrs. Sherman herself.

“Come and see us, Mr. Hanbury,” she