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Updated: June 19, 2025
In principle he was a Republican. And yet he could see no possibility of evolving a stable Republic from the chaos into which the political world was then plunged. After much deliberation, the Republican leaders at the Hôtel de Ville sent General Dubourg, as a commissioner, to the Orleanists assembled at M. Lafitte's, to confer respecting a compromise and union of parties.
I skirted the wall of the enclosure, and approached him unsuspected, from behind. "The charming creature!" he said to himself, still following her with his eyes. As the words passed his lips, I struck him smartly on the shoulder with my parasol. "Mr. Dubourg," I said, "I am waiting to hear the truth."
At the moment, however, when he opened the door, this ignoble sensation left me as suddenly as it had come. I felt myself Pratolungo's widow again, when I entered the room. A reading-lamp, with its shade down, was the only light on the table. Nugent Dubourg, comfortably reposing in an easychair, sat by the lamp, with a cigar in his mouth, and a book in his hand.
Quod erat demonstrandum," said Nugent Dubourg, finishing me off with a pleasant smile, and an easy indicative gesture of the hand which said, "Now I have settled these three people in succession, I am equally well satisfied with myself and with them!" His smile was irresistible.
I won't ask you to go with me to Browndown to-morrow; Oscar is coming to return my visit." Those last words decided me. I said to myself, "I will have it out with Mr. Nugent Dubourg, before I go to my bed to-night!" "Can you spare me for a little while?" I asked. "I must go to the other side of the house. Your father wishes to speak to me." Lucilla started. "About what?" she inquired eagerly.
Dubourg may be calling even sooner than that and take it with him. You will wonder why I ask you to tell him instead of writing myself.
Nugent Dubourg not to lose one unnecessary moment in bringing the German surgeon to Dimchurch. Mrs. Finch, called upon next. Spoke after some little delay, caused by the loss of her pocket-handkerchief. Would not presume to differ in opinion with her husband, whom she had never yet known to be otherwise than perfectly right about everything. But, if the German surgeon did come, and if Mr. Mrs.
She carefully wrote the name of the Italian priest on a blank leaf and returned the pencil and the book to the inspector, who received them with another bow. Doctor Dubourg and Inspector Setter then "bowed" themselves out of the lady's presence and returned to the bedside of the wounded man.
It was no secret that he associated with doubtful characters, male and female; but suspicion failed to point to any one of them in particular. In this state of things, there was no alternative but to request Mr. Dubourg well known in, and out of the town, as a young gentleman of independent fortune; bearing an excellent character to give some account of himself.
In 1708, according to Dubourg, Corelli accepted a royal invitation from Naples, and took with him his second violin, Matteo, and a violoncellist, in case he should not be well accompanied by the Neapolitan orchestra. He had no sooner arrived than he was asked to play some of his concertos before the king.
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