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Sept. 19, 1863.]
ONCE A WEEK.
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MY AFFAIR WITH THE RUSSIAN COUNTESS.

CHAPTER I.

Colyton Priory was a fine old building in the Elizabethan style. One wing alone had been rebuilt within modern times, and consisted of the drawing-rooms, and my mother and sister’s morning room. What had once been the monks’ refectory, was now used as a ball room, and when decorated with flowers and coloured lights, for
VOL. IX.
No. 221.