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A fortnight afterwards Madame Isabey and Adrienne returned to Harrowby. They were received with the greatest cordiality, and were glad to be there once more, but after a year of refugeeing they had begun to feel the truth of the words uttered by the great Florentine in his wanderings:
Salt is the savor of another's bread, / And weary are the feet which climbeth up / The stairs of others.