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now Château Desir was almost deserted. Mrs. Million continued her progress northward. The Courtowns and the Beaconsfields, and the Scropes, quitted immediately after Mr. Cleveland; and when the families that form the materiel of the visiting corps retire, the nameless nothings that are always lounging about the country mansions of the great, such as artists, tourists, litterateurs, and other live stock, soon disappear. Mr. Vivian Grey agreed to stay another fortnight, at the particular request of the Marquess.