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_Elvira_. What has become of poor Sancho? He has not appeared in town? / _Nuno_. Sancho has doubtless contrived to find shelter. / -- LOPE DE VEGA: _The Best Alcalde is the King_
Count d'Ahlefeld, dragging behind him an ample robe of black satin lined with ermine, his head and shoulders concealed by a large judicial wig, his breast covered with stars and decorations, among which were the collars of the Royal Orders of the Elephant and the Dannebrog, clad, in a word, in the complete costume of the lord chancellor of Denmark and Norway, paced with an anxious air up and down the apartment of Countess d'Ahlefeld, who was alone with him at the moment.