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"At the feast, or in giving the money," queried Mabille. "At the feast, to be sure," d'Hebonville answered. "Come, now; we should have no feeling in this matter," cried des Mazes. "We will decide for you, Mabille." "Old Bauer must not dream that there are any of his class who do not share in the matter," said Comneno. "That would be showing a preference, and a preference is never fair."
The kindly criticism of his friends, General Marbeuf and Inspector de Keralio, had left their effect upon him; and besides the companionship of his fellow-countryman, Demetrius Comneno, he had the good fortune to make his first really boy-friend in his roommate at the military school.
Carlone's gods and goddesses look down no longer on the members of the House of Lascaris, who once ruled over Tenda, and were the lineal descendants of the imperial Byzantine house of Del Comneno, but on those of an amiable Niçois family, who most willingly show the old palace to any stranger who may choose to knock at their door.
"In which you should be a general, I suppose, as you were in that snow ball fight at Brienne, of which we have heard once or twice," said d'Hebonville sarcastically. "And why not?" asked Napoleon haughtily. "Or the death of Caesar, like the tableaux we arranged at Brienne," suggested Demetrius Comneno enthusiastically. "In which your great Napoleon played Brutus, I suppose," said d'Hebonville.
Some years ago a Turinese lawyer, looking over his father's private papers, discovered that he was the legitimate heir to the Lascaris titles and estates, which had been left unreclaimed for many centuries. This gentleman, on proving his claim, assumed the grandiose title of Prince Lascaris del Comneno, grand duke of Macedonia. His glory was short-lived.
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