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The next morning on rising, I learned that 'his Excellency' as Prince Rimanez was called by his own servants and the employes of the 'Grand,' had gone out riding in the Park, leaving me to breakfast alone. I therefore took that meal in the public room of the hotel, where I was waited upon with the utmost obsequiousness, in spite of my shabby clothes, which I was of course still compelled to wear, having no change. When would I be pleased to lunch? At what hour would I dine? Should my present apartment be retained ?— or was it not satisfactory? Would I prefer a 'suite' similar to that occupied by his Excellency? All these deferential questions first astonished and then amused me,—some mysterious agency had evidently conveyed the rumor of my wealth among those best fitted to receive it, a
