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On the Bright Shore
he had time to alight he descried Romulus and Remus on the turf with netted clubs in their hands, throwing up balls under the care of a Cossack whom Pani Lageat had called the strangely dressed servant. They, when they saw him, ran up.
"Good-day, sir!"
"Good-day."
"Good-day! Is mamma upstairs?"
"No. Mamma has gone bicycling with M. de Sinten."
Silence followed.
"Ah I mamma has gone bicycling with De Sinten?" repeated Svirski. "Well!"
And after a while he added,—
"True! she expected me only at four o'clock."
Then he began to laugh.
"The tragedy ends in a farce. But this, however, is the Riviera! Still, what an ass I am!"
"Will you wait for mamma?" asked Romulus.
"No. Listen, my boys. Tell your mam-
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