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From force of habit he had written at the top of the first page the initial letters of the jesuit motto: A.M.D.G.
Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris.
The dean rested back on his hunkers and watched the sticks catch.
Some half-dozen times a year, at most, he claimed his privilege of coming in uninvited, and would sit among them through the evening, as he had once done often.
