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FRANCESCA CARRARA.
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Francesca noted that the cheek of Hortense brightened, while the brow of her sister darkened, as they recognised in one of them the Count de Meilleraye. All individual emotions passed unnoticed in the general enthusiasm with which the King—for it was he—was received as he entered, leaning on the arm of the Duke of Buckingham.