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FRIENDSHIP.

CHAPTER XIV.

'Chère Comtesse Etoile, pardon me, but you sow the earth with dragon's teeth!' said Lady Cardiff one morning, about four o'clock, on the Pincio. 'You cannot want enemies; you really cannot want them—you must have so many! I don't wish to be rude, you know, but you must. Whoever shines, &c. Why will you make so many unnecessary ones? Do tell me.'

'What have I done?' said Etoile with amazement and a little absently. She was thinking of things that Ioris had said the night before in