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When Monsieur Doltaire entered the salon, and, dropping lazily into a chair beside Madame Duvarney and her daughter, drawled out, "England's Braddock -- fool and general -- has gone to heaven, Captain Moray, and your papers send you there also," I did not shift a jot, but looked over at him gravely -- for, God knows, I was startled -- and I said,
"The General is dead?"