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There was one lady present, however, Madame de Beauffremont, who was affected with the Scottish gift of second sight, and related such dismal and sinister apparitions as passing before her eyes, that many of her female companions were filled with doleful presentiments. Unfortunately for the Count, there was another interest at work, more powerful even than the high aristocracy.
"Eh, ventre Dieu! are we not in the land of Beauffremont?" cried the other, pointing to the empty goblets. "I will tell you, then, an adventure well known at Dijon, which happened at the time I was in command there, and was worth being written down.
With the exception of the Clermont-Mont-Saint-Jean, the Beauffremont, the de Scey, and the Gramont families, with a few others who come only to stay on their estates in the Comte, the aristocracy of Besancon dates no further back than a couple of centuries, the time of the conquest by Louis XIV. This little world is essentially of the parlement, and arrogant, stiff, solemn, uncompromising, haughty beyond all comparison, even with the Court of Vienna, for in this the nobility of Besancon would put the Viennese drawing-rooms to shame.
"Eh, ventre Dieu! are we not in the land of Beauffremont?" cried the other, pointing to the empty goblets. "I will tell you, then, an adventure well known at Dijon, which happened at the time I was in command there, and was worth being written down.
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