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It was a bright morning in Rome.
"You will recollect, Miss Mary, that when I congratulated you at Orton upon your engagement to Dubard, you declared that you had no thought of any such thing," exclaimed George Macbean, with a smile. "I suppose I may now be permitted to repeat my congratulations?"