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"I? undoubtedly; but these cursed
spectacles won't get.along at all."
He told his story, and M. Bernier was
plunged in reflection.
" The Auvergnat is in the case somewhere. Have you any of the broken
mountings here?"
"There's one under my feet."
Mr. Bernier gathered it up, examined it
with a magnifying-glass, and thought that
the gold appeared silvered about the
place where it was broken.
" The devil! has Romagn6 been up to
any nonsense?" he said.
" What sort of nonsense do you suppose
he has been at? "
"He's always with you?"
"No; the monkey has left me; he's at
work in the city."
"I hope you've kept his address this
time."