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"That is a mere side affair," said the Duke, "and something else more closely affects me. I am expected to accept it, then, that the Comte de Mont-aiglon, travelling incognito in the unassuming rôle of a wine merchant, came here at this season simply from a passion for our Highland scenery. I had not thought the taste for dreary mountains and black glens had extended to the Continent."
Not a light, not a lowe " he went on, gazing upward to the frowning walls dark glistening in the rain "and then the bower must out and shine to mind me to mind me ah, Mont-aiglon, my pardons, my regrets! you must be finding me a melancholy host."
Still he said nothing; he could not trust himself to speak, facing, as he fancied yet he did, a traitor. "I see from your face you must still be dubious of me," said Doom. He waited for no reply, but paced up and down the room excitedly, the pleats of his kilt and the thongs of his purse swinging to his movements: a handsome figure, as Mont-aiglon could not but confess.
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