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by Isak Dinesen


  It was here, now, that he had that famous liaison with a cantatrice of the Opera which caused much talk and made his acquaintances smilingly alter his name to that of Casanova.

  When the Grand Duchess heard of it she was upset.

  “I had really,” she said, “during that time at Rosenbad, come to have such faith in Geheimrat Cazotte.”

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