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"My dear, I hope you are not going to show yourself to any one in that dress," added her mother. "It is perfectly correct," said Janet, "studied from an old Italian costume." "The Marchioness of Carabbas, in my old fairy-tale book. Oh, yes, I see!" and Babie went off again in an ecstatic fit of laughter. "I hope you've got boots and a tail ready for George," added Bobus.
"Are the elders ready?" said Beatrice's voice. "Papa, don't go on talking to Uncle Geoffrey!" cried Willy. "Ay, ay, all attention," said grandpapa. "Now for it!" As Uncle Geoffrey said, the cat was certainly out of the bag, and it proceeded in due form to take two real partridges from the bag, and present them to the king and princess in the name of the Marquis Carabbas.
It sounds so simple, but often what may be told in a dozen words may scarcely be done in as many months, and little less than a year of writing and planning and directing can have elapsed before all details were in order, and his four Commissioners of Customs were driving, like the Marquis of Carabbas, in a glass coach through the streets of Vienna.
Unfortunately, in spite of the fact that in twelve years, from 1830 to 1842, Balzac wrote seventy-nine novels an enormous number, especially remembering the fact that during the same time he published tales and numberless articles the great work was never finished; and the last philosophical study, which was entitled "The Marquis of Carabbas," and was to treat of the life of nations, was not even begun.
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