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A Loan from Crosat. Retrenchments. Unpaid Ambassadors. Council of the Regency. Influence of Lord Stair. The Pretender. His Departure from Bar. Colonel Douglas. The Pursuit. Adventure at Nonancourt. Its Upshot. Madame l'Hospital. Ingratitude of the Pretender. Behaviour of the Duchesse de Berry. Her Arrogance Checked by Public Opinion. Walls up the Luxembourg Garden. La Muette.
The post-master was named L'Hospital; he was absent, but his wife was in the house, and she fortunately was a very honest woman, who had wit, sense, and courage. Nonancourt is only five leagues from La Ferme, and when, to save distance, you do not pass there, they send you relays upon the road.
It was at Nonancourt that he alighted, ate a morsel at the post-house, inquired with extreme solicitude after a post-chaise which he described, as well as the manner in which it would be accompanied, expressed fear lest it had already passed, and lest he had not been answered truly.
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