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if sometimes the Duke’s thoughts wandered away from state dinners, coaches, and thrones to a humbler home in Canada with the woman with whom he had lived happily for twenty-seven years. Often his thoughts must have roamed wistfully to the sports and pleasures of his adopted land, to his soldiers there, to the ever-present Indians, to sleigh drives in the frosty air of old Canada.

But this is Holland Cove and not Kensington Palace!

0. I.—4