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He turned sharply, to find himself face to face with Carrbroke. "Found you," he said. "Well, it did not require my services to show you the Court. What do you think of it? Better than Fontainebleau, is it not?" It was not necessary for Denis to reply, because his companion went on quickly to speak of other things. "We shall be able to see a great deal of each other, I hope," he said.
I and Sir John Carrbroke have often corresponded upon matters of scientific lore, and you will be made welcome as my patron, you may be sure." "Hah!" cried the King. "There seems to be no end to you, Leoni. You know everything, and are always ready at a pinch.
"Yes, my boy," said the doctor; and the lad shivered slightly as the fierce fire in one of Leoni's eyes died into a pleasant smile, though the cold fixed stare in the other remained the same as of old. "I thought I was alone." "Well, boy; do you like your life here in the castle?" "Oh yes," cried Denis; "but when are we to have, Carrbroke and I, another fencing lesson?"
"Yes, yes," said the lad faintly. "Come in. Carrbroke, this is Master Leoni, the gentleman who handles his sword so well." "I am glad to know you, sir," said the youth, drawing himself up and welcoming with courtly grace the slight, keen-looking, elderly man whose strange, penetrating eyes seemed to be searching him through and through. "I am so sorry that I was asleep when you came last night.
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