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Updated: May 28, 2025
MR. Raoul Innerarity proved a treasure. The fact became patent in a few hours. To a student of the community he was a key, a lamp, a lexicon, a microscope, a tabulated statement, a book of heraldry, a city directory, a glass of wine, a Book of Days, a pair of wings, a comic almanac, a diving bell, a Creole veritas. Before the day had had time to cool, his continual stream of words had done more to elucidate the mysteries in which his employer had begun to be befogged than half a year of the apothecary's slow and scrupulous guessing. It was like showing how to carve a strange fowl. The way he dovetailed story into story and drew forward in panoramic procession Lufki-Humma and Epaminondas Fusilier, Zephyr Grandissime and the lady of the lettre de cachet, Demosthenes De Grapion and the fille
"After eighteen years," thought Aurora, as she found herself alone. It had been eighteen years since any representative of the De Grapion line had met a Grandissime face to face, so far as she knew; even that representative was only her deceased husband, a mere connection by marriage.
They early learned one favorite cry, with which they greeted all strangers, crying the louder the more the endeavor was made to appease them: "Invaders! Invaders!" There was a real pathos in the contrast offered to this family line by that other which sprang up, as slenderly as a stalk of wild oats, from the loins of Demosthenes De Grapion.
"Ah! and you know it as well as A, B, C," playfully retorted Clotilde. "Well, guess which one is our landlord?" "Which one?" "Ma foi! how do I know? I had to wait a shameful long time to see Monsieur le prince, just because I am a De Grapion, I know.
"I have heard an English maxim," wrote Colonel De Grapion to his kinsman, "which I would recommend you to put into practice 'Fight the devil with fire." No, he would not recognize devils as belligerents. But if Rome commissioned exorcists, could not he employ one? No, he would not! If his hounds could not catch Bras-Coupé, why, let him go.
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