THE DRAGON VOLANT.
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St. Clair, to whom, you will have observed, I had accustomed myself to talk with the peculiar, familiarity which the old French comedy establishes between master and valet. I am sure he laughed at me in secret; but nothing could be more polite and deferential. With several wise looks, nods and shrugs, he withdrew; and looking down from my window, I saw him, with incredible quickness, enter the yard, where I soon lost sight of him among the carriages.
