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Meanwhile, the Due de Nivernais was negotiating 

 for peace at the Court of Saint James's ; and, what 

 with the difficulties of diplomacy and the rigours of 



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the climate, he passed but a miserable time. " This 

 country," he wrote, " is a cruel country for negotiation ; 

 one needs to have a body and a spirit of iron," and 

 how little like iron was his frame may perhaps be 

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