But the letter, written in his son’s own hand, and addressed to the Mother Abbess of the Convent of the Sisters of Wisdom near Blaye in the district of Santonge, dated a little over five years previously, exercised a powerful effect upon him. “Of course, one lives differently in Paris, but then—Paris is Paris. “I do hope you will see how things are, and not be offended with me or frightfully shocked and distressed by what I have done. On the other a wretched engraving of the Chevalier de Saint George, or, as he was styled in the label attached to the portrait, James the Third, raised a suspicion that the inmate of the house was not altogether free from some tincture of Jacobitism. But, if you've a spark of love for me, don't meddle with anything in that house. Without betraying the slightest confusion, or making a single remark, he quietly resumed his seat. They became aware of the waitress standing over them with book and pencil ready for their bill. He was standing by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small casket from him.
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