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Updated: May 14, 2025
Just the man I'm looking for! I didn't know you were in this part of the world. Hurry up with your breakfast and join me and my friend, the Countess de Boistelle, in a spin around the lake. Perhaps you know her already. No? That's easy arranged she's a particular friend of mine, and she's got a chum of her's staying here too, I guess.
Then he turned his great bulk and waddled ponderously into the hotel, in search of his particular friend, the Comtesse de Boistelle. Toward the landing on the lake Paul descended, with his heels biting viciously into the gravel at every step. "Confound these beastly people!" he growled. "Why are they allowed to roam about the earth, making hideous the beautiful places."
And he turned and passed through the door, leaving the man once more speechless. With a few steps Paul reached the lady, who was waiting for him. As he approached she turned to him, lifting the heavy veil which had hid her features, and then, leaning toward her in the subdued light of the passage-way, Paul gazed with amazement into the face of the Comtesse de Boistelle.
As the other travellers descended from the carriage and formed a little knot upon the platform, the Comtesse de Boistelle, now occupied with a betufted poodle frisking at the end of a leash, strolled by him. As she passed Paul she dropped a jewelled reticule, which he promptly recovered for her, offering it with a grave face and a murmured "Permettez moi, Madame."
A smartly clipped poodle perched in the centre of the wide seat on one side of him lounged the shapeless green form of the pork-packer, on the other side gracefully reposed the Comtesse de Boistelle.
The Comtesse de Boistelle was not one to place too low a value upon her own attractiveness. The attentions lavished on her by her porcine American admirer had lacked the artistic touch of this coup of the English nobleman, and she was willing to capitulate on the spot in favour of the latter. All this and more Paul read in the warm, admiring glance of the Comtesse which met his astonished gaze.
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