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CAPTAIN ROQUEFINETTE. On the 22d of March, in the year of our Lord 1718, a young cavalier of high bearing, about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, mounted on a pure-bred Spanish charger, was w…
THE MEETING. As soon as Lafare, Fargy, and Ravanne saw their adversaries appear at the corner of the path, they walked to meet them. Arrived at ten paces from each other, they all took off their hats…
THE CHEVALIER. The Chevalier Raoul d'Harmental, with whom, before going further, it is necessary that our readers make a better acquaintance, was the last of one of the best families of Nivernai…
A BAL-MASQUE OF THE PERIOD.—THE BAT. The opera balls were then at their height. It was an invention of the Chevalier de Bullon, who only obtained pardon for assuming the title of Prince d'Auverg…
THE ARSENAL. They both maintained a profound silence during the route. This adventure, which at first had presented itself under the appearance of an amorous intrigue, had soon assumed a graver aspec…
THE PRINCE DE CELLAMARE. At this invitation there entered a tall, thin, grave man, with a sunburned complexion, who at a single glance took in everything in the room, animate and inanimate. The cheva…
ALBERONI. When D'Harmental awoke, he wondered if all had been a dream. Events had, during the last thirty-six hours, succeeded each other with such rapidity, that he had been carried away, as by…
THE GARRET. The next day the Abbe Brigaud came to the chevalier's house at the same hour as before. He was a perfectly punctual man. He brought with him three things particularly useful to the c…
A CITIZEN OF THE RUE DU TEMPS PERDU. During this time D'Harmental was seated before the spinet, playing his best. The shopkeeper had had a sort of conscience, and had sent him an instrument near…
THE AGREEMENT. The chevalier extended his hand to Roquefinette, saying: "Yes, you are a man of your word, but enter quickly; it is important that my neighbors should not notice you." "…
