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`` Dr. Baleinier wishes to know if her Highness the Princess can receive him , '' asked the valet-de-chambre . `` Certainly . Beg him to walk in . '' `` There is also a gentleman that M. l'Abbe appointed to be here at noon , by whose orders I have left him waiting in the oratory . '' '' 'T is the person in question , '' said the marquis to the princess . `` We must have him in first . ` Twould be useless for Dr. Baleinier to see him at present . ''