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The next day Madame Beaurepas handed me, with her own elderly fingers, a missive, which proved to be a telegram. After glancing at it, I informed her that it was apparently a signal for my departure; my brother had arrived in England, and proposed to me to meet him there; he had come on business, and was to spend but three weeks in Europe. "But my house empties itself! " cried the old woman. "The famille Ruck talks of leaving me, and Madame Church _nous fait la révérence_."
"Mrs. Church is going away?"