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He has a private fortune of five thousand pounds; he is a dutiful son; he has a sister married, in Harley Street; and Lady Jane Ranville has the best opinion of him, and says he is a most excellent and highly principled young man. Her ladyship and daughter arrived just as Mr.
Talleyrand used to play at whist at the "Travellers'," that is why Ranville Ranville indulges in that diplomatic recreation. It is not his fault if he be not the greatest man in the room. If you speak to him, he smiles sternly, and answers in monosyllables he would rather die than commit himself. He never has committed himself in his life. He was the first at school, and distinguished at Oxford.
M. de Ranville, who had the evening before advised measures of compromise, was now for a continuance of the conflict. "The throne is overturned, we are told," said he; "the evil is great, but I believe it is exaggerated; I can not believe that the monarchy is to fall without a combat. Happen what may, Paris is not France.
Ranville has an old church tower standing in lonely fashion by itself, and you pass a conspicuous calvary as you go on to the curious little seaside resort known as Le Home-Sur-Mer. Perched here and there on the sandy ridge between the road and the shore, they have scarcely anything more to suggest a garden than the thin wiry grass that contrives to exist in such soil.
'Infernal impudent jackanapes! If he shows me up, says Colonel Bludyer, 'I'll break every bone in his skin. 'I told you what would come of admitting literary men into the Club, says Ranville Ranville to his colleague, Spooney, of the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office.
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