The Mysterious Disappearance of the Chevalier Valmont

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“Things are not always what they seem, Madam.”

“Now you speak in riddles.”

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“Please, tell me.”

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“You know, I have this strange feeling that we have met before,” said the baroness after a while.

“That’s quite impossible. This is my first time in Mouseville.”

“Maybe it was before you came to Mouseville. Where are you from?”

“I was born in a small town on the southern coast of the Mouse Kingdom. Its name won’t tell you anything. Later, I spent a lot of time away from home, travelling. No, I don’t think that our paths have crossed before. Besides, I would have remembered you if I had met you.”

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“And still… Your face…It seems strangely familiar. I have this feeling ever since you entered the room.”

“Such things happen. You know, once I made a portrait of a mouse girl I had never really seen, she only existed in my imagination, and was very surprised when some time afterwards I ran into a living copy of that girl in one of the port towns. Our subconscious mind – or whatever it is – plays tricks with us sometimes. One of these tricks is called déjà vu: you think that what you’re doing or feeling now has already happened to you before. Probably, you are experiencing something like that.