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The matter that brought Monsieur de Tressan to Condillac - and brought him in most fearful haste - was the matter of the courier who had that day arrived at the chateau.
News of it had reached the ears of my Lord Seneschal. His mind had been a prey to uneasiness concerning this business of rebellion in which he had so rashly lent a hand, and he was anxious to know whence came this courier and what news he brought. But for all his haste he had paused - remembering it was the Marquise he went to visit - to don the gorgeous yellow suit with the hanging sleeves which he had had from Paris, and the crimson sash he had bought at Taillemant's, all in the very latest mode.