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Photo Nutter from Melbourne<p>Good evening, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastophoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastophoto</span></a> </p><p>This is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FensterFreitag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FensterFreitag</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WindowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/window" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>window</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fotografie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fotografie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> </p><p>Tian Yuan Temple, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taipei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taipei</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taiwan</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roentare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roentare</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photographyisart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographyisart</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photooftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photooftheday</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pictureoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pictureoftheday</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/picoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>picoftheday</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/potd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potd</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cherry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cherry</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flower</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spring</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oriental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oriental</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asia</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/temple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>temple</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tree</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/treesofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treesofmastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscape</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/landscapephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscapephotography</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ayearforart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ayearforart</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Roentare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Roentare</span></a></span></p>
History of Art<p>A Scene from Lalla Rookh (1891) by American artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926). This work was inspired by Thomas Moore's 1817 romantic <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> Lalla Rookh, in which the titular heroine is the daughter of a 17th-century Mughal emperor. Here Moran captures the atmosphere of Oriental splendor from Moore's tale, setting fancifully decorated sailboats and colorful crowds against a glowing skyline of exotic domed palaces and towering castles.</p><p><a href="https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-scene-from-lalla-rookh-1891-thomas-moran-1837-1926.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stellar-art.pixels.com/feature</span><span class="invisible">d/a-scene-from-lalla-rookh-1891-thomas-moran-1837-1926.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Oriental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oriental</span></a></p>
Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin<p>Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin Part 20 of 99<br> <br>“It is the same handwriting. Am I likely to make a mistake about it?” spluttered the millionaire. And he tore open the envelope with an air of frenzy.<br>He ran his eyes over it, and they grew larger and larger—they grew almost of an average size.<br>“Listen,” he said “listen:”<br>“DEAR SIR,”<br>“My collection of pictures, which I had the pleasure of starting three years ago with some of your own, only contains, as far as Old Masters go, one Velasquez, one Rembrandt, and three paltry Rubens. You have a great many more. Since it is a shame such masterpieces should be in your hands, I propose to appropriate them; and I shall set about a respectful acquisition of them in your Paris house to-morrow morning.”<br>“Yours very sincerely,” “ARSÈNE LUPIN.”<br>“He’s humbugging,” said the Duke.<br>“Wait! wait!” gasped the millionaire. “There’s a postscript. Listen:”<br>“P.S.—You must understand that since you have been keeping the coronet of the Princesse de Lamballe during these three years, I shall avail myself of the same occasion to compel you to restore that piece of jewellery to me.—A. L.”<br>“The thief! The scoundrel! I’m choking!” gasped the millionaire, clutching at his collar.<br>To judge from the blackness of his face, and the way he staggered and dropped on to a couch, which was fortunately stronger than the chair, he was speaking the truth.<br>“Firmin! Firmin!” shouted the Duke. “A glass of water! Quick! Your master’s ill.”<br>He rushed to the side of the millionaire, who gasped: “Telephone! Telephone to the Prefecture of Police! Be quick!”<br>The Duke loosened his collar with deft fingers; tore a Van Loo fan from its case hanging on the wall, and fanned him furiously. Firmin came clumping into the room with a glass of water in his hand.<br>The drawing-room door opened, and Germaine and Sonia, alarmed by the Duke’s shout, hurried in.<br>“Quick! Your smelling-salts!” said the Duke.<br>Sonia ran across the hall, opened one of the drawers in the Oriental cabinet, and ran to the millionaire with a large bottle of smelling-salts in her hand. The Duke took it from her, and applied it to the millionaire’s nose. The millionaire sneezed thrice with terrific violence. The Duke snatched the glass from Firmin and dashed the water into his host’s purple face. The millionaire gasped and spluttered.<br>Germaine stood staring helplessly at her gasping sire.<br>“Whatever’s the matter?” she said.<br>“It’s this letter,” said the Duke. “A letter from Lupin.”<br>“I told you so—I said that Lupin was in the neighbourhood,” cried Germaine triumphantly.<br>“Firmin—where’s Firmin?” said the millionaire, dragging himself upright. He seemed to have recovered a great deal of his voice. “Oh, there you are!”<br>He jumped up, caught the gamekeeper by the shoulder, and shook him furiously.<br>“This letter. Where did it come from? Who brought it?” he roared.<br>“It was in the letter-box—the letter-box of the lodge at the bottom of the park. My wife found it there,” said Firmin, and he twisted out of the millionaire’s grasp.<br>“Just as it was three years ago,” roared the millionaire, with an air of desperation. “It’s exactly the same coup. Oh, what a catastrophe! What a catastrophe!”<br>He made as if to tear out his hair; then, remembering its scantiness, refrained.<br>“Now, come, it’s no use losing your head,” said the Duke, with quiet firmness. “If this letter isn’t a hoax—”<br>“Hoax?” bellowed the millionaire. “Was it a hoax three years ago?”<br>“Very good,” said the Duke. “But if this robbery with which you’re threatened is genuine, it’s just childish.”<br>“How?” said the millionaire.<br>“Look at the date of the letter—Sunday, September the third. This letter was written to-day.”<br>“Yes. Well, what of it?” said the millionaire.<br>“Look at the letter: ‘I shall set about a respectful acquisition of them in your Paris house to-morrow morning’—to-morrow morning.”<br>“Yes, yes; ‘to-morrow morning’—what of it?” said the millionaire.<br>“One of two things,” said the Duke. “Either it’s a hoax, and we needn’t bother about it; or the threat is genuine, and we have the time to stop the robbery.”<br>“Of course we have. Whatever was I thinking of?” said the millionaire. And his anguish cleared from his face.<br>“For once in a way our dear Lupin’s fondness for warning people will have given him a painful jar,” said the Duke.<br>“Come on! let me get at the telephone,” cried the millionaire.<br>“But the telephone’s no good,” said Sonia quickly.<br>“No good! Why?” roared the millionaire, dashing heavily across the room to it.</p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Velasquez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Velasquez</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Rembrandt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rembrandt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/ARS%C3%88NELUPIN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARSÈNELUPIN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/PrincessedeLamballe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrincessedeLamballe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Firmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Telephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Telephone</span></a>! <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/PrefectureofPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrefectureofPolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Germaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germaine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Sonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sonia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Oriental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oriental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Lupin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lupin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/ArseneLupin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArseneLupin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/MauriceLeBlanc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MauriceLeBlanc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/booktoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>booktoot</span></a></p>
Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin<p>Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin Part 13 of 99<br> <br>“Oh, come! what on earth do you mean?” said the Duke. “You’re getting quite incomprehensible, my dear girl.”<br>“Well, I’ll make it clear to you. One morning papa received a letter—but wait. Sonia, get me the Lupin papers out of the bureau.”<br>Sonia rose from the writing-table, and went to a bureau, an admirable example of the work of the great English maker, Chippendale. It stood on the other side of the hall between an Oriental cabinet and a sixteenth-century Italian cabinet—for all the world as if it were standing in a crowded curiosity shop—with the natural effect that the three pieces, by their mere incongruity, took something each from the beauty of the other. Sonia raised the flap of the bureau, and taking from one of the drawers a small portfolio, turned over the papers in it and handed a letter to the Duke.<br>“This is the envelope,” she said. “It’s addressed to M. Gournay-Martin, Collector, at the château de Charmerace, Ile-et-Vilaine.”<br>The Duke opened the envelope and took out a letter.<br>“It’s an odd handwriting,” he said.<br>“Read it—carefully,” said Germaine.<br>It was an uncommon handwriting. The letters of it were small, but perfectly formed. It looked the handwriting of a man who knew exactly what he wanted to say, and liked to say it with extreme precision. The letter ran:<br>“DEAR SIR,”<br>“Please forgive my writing to you without our having been introduced to one another; but I flatter myself that you know me, at any rate, by name.”<br>“There is in the drawing-room next your hall a Gainsborough of admirable quality which affords me infinite pleasure. Your Goyas in the same drawing-room are also to my liking, as well as your Van Dyck. In the further drawing-room I note the Renaissance cabinets—a marvellous pair—the Flemish tapestry, the Fragonard, the clock signed Boulle, and various other objects of less importance. But above all I have set my heart on that coronet which you bought at the sale of the Marquise de Ferronaye, and which was formerly worn by the unfortunate Princesse de Lamballe. I take the greatest interest in this coronet: in the first place, on account of the charming and tragic memories which it calls up in the mind of a poet passionately fond of history, and in the second place—though it is hardly worth while talking about that kind of thing—on account of its intrinsic value. I reckon indeed that the stones in your coronet are, at the very lowest, worth half a million francs.”<br>“I beg you, my dear sir, to have these different objects properly packed up, and to forward them, addressed to me, carriage paid, to the Batignolles Station. Failing this, I shall Proceed to remove them myself on the night of Thursday, August 7th.”<br>“Please pardon the slight trouble to which I am putting you, and believe me,”<br>“Yours very sincerely,” “ARSÈNE LUPIN.”<br>“P.S.—It occurs to me that the pictures have not glass before them. It would be as well to repair this omission before forwarding them to me, and I am sure that you will take this extra trouble cheerfully. I am aware, of course, that some of the best judges declare that a picture loses some of its quality when seen through glass. But it preserves them, and we should always be ready and willing to sacrifice a portion of our own pleasure for the benefit of posterity. France demands it of us.—A. L.”<br>The Duke laughed, and said, “Really, this is extraordinarily funny. It must have made your father laugh.”<br>“Laugh?” said Germaine. “You should have seen his face. He took it seriously enough, I can tell you.”<br>“Not to the point of forwarding the things to Batignolles, I hope,” said the Duke.</p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Sonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sonia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Lupin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lupin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Chippendale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chippendale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Oriental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oriental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Italian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/M_Gournay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>M_Gournay</span></a>-Martin <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Collector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collector</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/deCharmerace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deCharmerace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Germaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germaine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Renaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Renaissance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Flemish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flemish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Fragonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fragonard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Boulle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boulle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/PrincessedeLamballe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrincessedeLamballe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/halfamillionfrancs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>halfamillionfrancs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/BatignollesStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BatignollesStation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/ARS%C3%88NELUPIN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARSÈNELUPIN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/us_" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us_</span></a>—A_ <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/ArseneLupin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArseneLupin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/MauriceLeBlanc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MauriceLeBlanc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/booktoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>booktoot</span></a></p>
Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin<p>Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin Part 2 of 99<br> <br> CHAPTER I THE MILLIONAIRE’S DAUGHTER</p><p>The rays of the September sun flooded the great halls of the old château of the Dukes of Charmerace, lighting up with their mellow glow the spoils of so many ages and many lands, jumbled together with the execrable taste which so often afflicts those whose only standard of value is money. The golden light warmed the panelled walls and old furniture to a dull lustre, and gave back to the fading gilt of the First Empire chairs and couches something of its old brightness. It illumined the long line of pictures on the walls, pictures of dead and gone Charmeraces, the stern or debonair faces of the men, soldiers, statesmen, dandies, the gentle or imperious faces of beautiful women. It flashed back from armour of brightly polished steel, and drew dull gleams from armour of bronze. The hues of rare porcelain, of the rich inlays of Oriental or Renaissance cabinets, mingled with the hues of the pictures, the tapestry, the Persian rugs about the polished floor to fill the hall with a rich glow of colour.<br>But of all the beautiful and precious things which the sun-rays warmed to a clearer beauty, the face of the girl who sat writing at a table in front of the long windows, which opened on to the centuries-old turf of the broad terrace, was the most beautiful and the most precious.<br>It was a delicate, almost frail, beauty. Her skin was clear with the transparent lustre of old porcelain, and her pale cheeks were only tinted with the pink of the faintest roses. Her straight nose was delicately cut, her rounded chin admirably moulded. A lover of beauty would have been at a loss whether more to admire her clear, germander eyes, so melting and so adorable, or the sensitive mouth, with its rather full lips, inviting all the kisses. But assuredly he would have been grieved by the perpetual air of sadness which rested on the beautiful face—the wistful melancholy of the Slav, deepened by something of personal misfortune and suffering.<br>Her face was framed by a mass of soft fair hair, shot with strands of gold where the sunlight fell on it; and little curls, rebellious to the comb, strayed over her white forehead, tiny feathers of gold.<br>She was addressing envelopes, and a long list of names lay on her left hand. When she had addressed an envelope, she slipped into it a wedding-card. On each was printed:<br>“M. Gournay-Martin has the honour to inform you of the marriage of his daughter Germaine to the Duke of Charmerace.”<br>She wrote steadily on, adding envelope after envelope to the pile ready for the post, which rose in front of her. But now and again, when the flushed and laughing girls who were playing lawn-tennis on the terrace, raised their voices higher than usual as they called the score, and distracted her attention from her work, her gaze strayed through the open window and lingered on them wistfully; and as her eyes came back to her task she sighed with so faint a wistfulness that she hardly knew she sighed. Then a voice from the terrace cried, “Sonia! Sonia!”<br>“Yes. Mlle. Germaine?” answered the writing girl.<br>“Tea! Order tea, will you?” cried the voice, a petulant voice, rather harsh to the ear.<br>“Very well, Mlle. Germaine,” said Sonia; and having finished addressing the envelope under her pen, she laid it on the pile ready to be posted, and, crossing the room to the old, wide fireplace, she rang the bell.<br>She stood by the fireplace a moment, restoring to its place a rose which had fallen from a vase on the mantelpiece; and her attitude, as with arms upraised she arranged the flowers, displayed the delightful line of a slender figure. As she let fall her arms to her side, a footman entered the room.<br>“Will you please bring the tea, Alfred,” she said in a charming voice of that pure, bell-like tone which has been Nature’s most precious gift to but a few of the greatest actresses.<br>“For how many, miss?” said Alfred.<br>“For four—unless your master has come back.”<br>“Oh, no; he’s not back yet, miss. He went in the car to Rennes to lunch; and it’s a good many miles away. He won’t be back for another hour.”<br>“And the Duke—he’s not back from his ride yet, is he?”<br>“Not yet, miss,” said Alfred, turning to go.<br>“One moment,” said Sonia. “Have all of you got your things packed for the journey to Paris? You will have to start soon, you know. 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