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Charles, left alone, wondered greatly at not having seen either of his favorites, his nurse Madeleine or his greyhound Acteon.
"Nurse must have gone to chant psalms with some Huguenot of her acquaintance," said he to himself; "and Acteon is probably still angry with me for the whipping I gave him this morning."