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"Varniers!" cried Edward, with an eagerness he could ill conceal. "The name sounds foreign." "They were not Germans they were emigrants from the Netherlands, who had left their country on account of political troubles," replied the captain.
"I will tell you why that is," cried an animated lieutenant; "that is because there is no house as a point of reunion, where one is sure to find and make acquaintances, and to be amused, and where each individual ascertains his own merits by the effect they produce on society at large." "Yes, we have had nothing of that kind since the Varniers left us," said the captain.
"Yes, yes; exactly so," said an old gentleman, a civilian, who had been silent hitherto; "the Varniers' house is a great loss in the country, where such losses are not so easily replaced as in a large town. First, the father died, then came the cousin and carried the daughter away." "And did this cousin marry the young lady?" inquired Edward, in a tone tremulous with agitation.
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