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Updated: May 14, 2025
M. Daburon had broken a handsome card-plate; M. de Commarin, who was at breakfast, dropped his knife on his plate. Like the magistrate he exclaimed, "Claire!" He hesitated to receive her, fearing a painful and disagreeable scene. She could only have, as he knew, a very slight affection for him, who had for so long repulsed her with such obstinacy. What could she want with him?
He reflected that it was his own middle name and, on the instant, fancy engraved for him a card-plate on which appeared the legend "Mr. Stormont Thorpe." It was an inspiration! "Joel" he had not used for so many years that now, after six months' familiarity with it on his sister's lips, he could not get accustomed to it.
But he immediately started with a movement of dismay, as if he had seen a ghost. In his confusion, he dropped the card-plate, which fell noisily on to the hearth, and broke into a thousand pieces. "Claire!" he stammered, "Claire!" And as if he feared equally either being deceived by an illusion or actually seeing her whose name he had uttered, he turned slowly round.
He was then asked about some seals which he had ordered to be engraved by Mr. Moring, a seal engraver in Holborn, and admitted giving an order for a card-plate and cards; but denied that at the same time he had ordered a steel seal to be made according to a pattern which he produced, which bore the crest, garter, and motto of the Smyths of Long Ashton.
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