''
``Well,'' said Lady Susan, ``you may laugh at me, but it
was the name that attracted me. You see, I was always mixed
up with the Franco-German war; I was married on the day that
the war was declared, and my eldest child was born the day
that peace was signed, so anything connected with the war
has always interested me. And when I saw there was a horse
running in the Derby called after one of the battles in the
Franco-German war, I said I _must_ put some money on it, for
once in a way, though I disapprove of racing. And it's
actually won.''
There was a general groan. No one groaned more deeply
than the professor of military history.
THE SECRET SIN OF SEPTIMUS BROPE
``Who and what is Mr. Brope?'' demanded the aunt of Clovis
suddenly.
Mrs. Riversedge, who had been snipping off the heads of
defunct roses, and thinking of nothing in particular, sprang
hurriedly to mental attention. She was one of those
old-fashioned hostesses who consider that one ought to know
something about one's guests, and that the something ought
to be to their credit.
``I believe he comes from Leighton Buzzard,'' she observed
by way of preliminary explanation.
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