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In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance

           

           WehadonoursidetheHomeMinister,theMasteroftheHorse,theDuke’sPrivateSecretary,andthePrince’sTutor;whereasoftheFrenchpartyweretheForeignMinister,theCommander-in-Chief’sLady,whohadservedunderNapoleon,andtheHof-Marschallandhiswife,whowasgladenoughtogetthefashionsfromPans,andalwayshadthemandhercapsbyM.deMacabau’scourier.TheSecretaryofhisChancerywaslittleGrignac,ayoungfellow,asmaliciousasSatan,andwhomadecaricaturesofTapeworminallthe-albumsoftheplace.

           Theirheadquartersandtabled’hotewereestablishedatthePariserHof,theotherinnofthetown;andthough,ofcourse,thesegentlemenwereobligedtobecivilinpublic,yettheycutateachotherwithepigramsthatwereassharpasrazors,asIhaveseenacoupleofwrestlersinDevonshire,lashingateachother’sshinsandnevershowingtheiragonyuponamuscleoftheirfaces.NeitherTapewormnorMacabaueversenthomeadispatchtohisgovernmentwithoutamostsavageseriesofattacksuponhisrival.Forinstance,onoursidewewouldwrite,"TheinterestsofGreatBritaininthisplace,andthroughoutthewholeofGermany,areperilledbythecontinuanceinofficeofthepresentFrenchenvoy;thismanisofacharactersoinfamousthathewillstickatnofalsehood,orhesitateatnocrime,toattainhisends.

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