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Adele here ran before him with her shuttlecock "Away!" he cried

harshly; "keep at a distance, child; or go in to Sophie!"

Continuing then to pursue his walk in silence, I ventured to recall

hied "Did you leave the balcony, sir," I asked, "when Mdlle Varens

entered?"

I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-ti out of his scowling abstraction, he turned

his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow

"Oh, I had forgotten Celine! Well, to resume When I saw my

charmer thus come in accoreen snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils

frolided within my waistcoat, and ate its

way in two e!" he exclaie that I should

choose you for the confidant of all this, young lady; passing

strange that you should listen toin the world for a man like me to tell stories of his

opera-irl like you! But the

last singularity explains the first, as I intiravity, considerateness, and caution were made to be

the recipient of secrets Besides, I knohat sort of a mind I