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20 him in the side alley riding with the Countess Brancka. A physical pain seemed to contract líer heart for a moment.

perceiving them also. * Not content with bor- rowing your Arabs, she mušt háve your hus- bánd also as her cavalier.'
 * Olga is very accaparante^' said the Princess,

Wanda, very calmly.
 * If she amuse bim I am her debtor,' said

you be amused by her ? '
 * Amuse ! Can a man who has lived with

sniile which was not mirthful. ' Men are like Bela and Gela ; they cannot always be serious.' Then she told her coachman to leave the Bois and drive out into the country. She did not čare to meet those riders at every turn in the avenues.
 * I am not arausing/ said his wife, with a

she happened to see him alone. * Can you find no one in all Paris to divert yourself with except Štefan Brancka's wife ? I thought you disliked her.'
 * My dear Eéné/ said the Princess, when

Sabran hesitated.

' She is related to us/ he said a little feebly. week.'
 * One sees her of necessity a hundred times a

sententiously. ' But she is not altogether frien^-
 * For our misfortune/ said the Princess,