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"Did you ever see any one ride like that?" he asked, turning toward Kastager, "he reminds me of a gaucho." "Mazeppa?" said Kastager, questioningly. The horseman disappeared. Then they all rose, and set out for the hotel. They had met the Kastagers in Belfort, and since they were pursuing the same itinerary through southern France and along the Riviera, they for the time being traveled together.
Saumarez was away on the Continent most of the winter," answered Peppermore. "The Riviera, Nice, Monte Carlo that sort of thing. She may have met somebody there that she preferred to either Wellesley or Wallingford. Anyway, Mr. Brent, what did the doctor mean when he frankly admitted that there had been jealousy between him and Wallingford, but that it no longer existed?
Since the middle of last month the catalogue of suicides at Monaco has been swollen by the addition of five or six further victims to the Moloch of play; nor can it be wondered at if under these circumstances a loud demand that the Casino at Monte Carlo should be forcibly closed has been made, not only by many public writers in France and Italy, but still more by permanent residents upon the Mediterranean Riviera.
When the French insurrection broke out in 1830, he and other young men betook themselves to the casting of bullets. He was arrested, and confined in the fortress of Savona, on the western Riviera. It was while in prison that he conceived the plan of establishing a society, which he called "Young Italy," for the propagation of republican ideas.
"I got wind of it in Sofia," Hunterleys explained. "I travelled from there quite quietly, loitered about the Italian Riviera, and came on here as a tourist. The only help I could get hold of here was from Sidney Roche, who, as you know, is one of our Secret Service men. Roche, I am sorry to say, was shot last night.
I want you to come, to come away to be company to the old man for Christmas; and afterwards, when you are a bit stronger, I mean to take you to the Riviera, where the sun shines all day and the flowers bloom. Will you come with the old man, my dear? 'Oh Ardshiel, I would, I would; but listen, Ardshiel dear, and don't be angry.
Oh, but you should see our fireflies here in May, when the Riviera is supposed to be wiped off the map, not existent till winter. And the glow-worms. I have three in my garden. No garden is complete without at least one glow-worm. I had to beg my first from a neighbour."
Oh! how blessed to have done with the Riviera, and its hybrid empty life, for good and all! how blessed even, to have done with the Alps and Italy! how blessed, above all, to have come home! home into the heart of this English land warm mother-heart, into which she, stranger and orphan, might creep and be at rest. The eloquence of her own thoughts possessed her.
For Cliffe during the preceding winter, on his return from some remarkable travels in Persia, had paused on the Riviera, and an affair at Cannes with a French vicomtesse had got into the English papers.
Joseph's face would have put radium to shame, with the light it generated. "Monsieur is not joking? He is in earnest?" the poor fellow stammered. "Most certainly. And when we meet on the Riviera, we will talk over a scheme for your future of which I've been thinking.
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