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`` We can not be overheard here , '' De Grost remarked . `` It must be an affair of a few words only , though . '' Monsieur de Lamborne wasted no time in preliminaries . `` This afternoon , '' he said , `` I received from my Government papers of immense importance , which I am to hand over to your Foreign Minister at eleven o'clock to-morrow morning . '' The Baron nodded . `` Well ? '' De Lamborne 's thin fingers trembled as they played nervously with the ribbon of his eye-glass .