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Champignac was very fond of ecarte, and made many parties with the Colonel of evenings, while Becky was singing to Lord Steyne in the other room; and as for Truffigny, it is a well-known fact that he dared not go to the Travellers', where he owed money to the waiters, and if he had not had the Embassy as a dining-place, the worthy young gentleman must have starved.
He would have all the money, he said, or keep my poor monstre in prison. Paddington came in, too, drawling and lisping and twiddling his hair; so did Champignac, and his chef everybody with foison of compliments and pretty speeches plaguing poor me, who longed to be rid of them, and was thinking every moment of the time of mon pauvre prisonnier.
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