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Some people contended that the reason Mademoiselle Reisz always chose

apartars,

peddlars and callers There were plenty of s in her little front

rooy, but as they were nearly always

open it did not make so ood deal of sht

and air that there was cah them From her s could be seen

the crescent of the river, thechinificent piano crowded the apartment

In the next rooasoline stove on which she cooked herrestaurant It was there also that she ate, keeping

her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred

years of use

When Edna knocked at Mademoiselle Reisz's front roo beside the , engaged in

aiter The little h consisted of a contortion of the

face and all thethere in the afternoon light She still wore the shabby lace

and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head

"So you remembered me at last," said Mademoiselle "I had said to

myself, 'Ah, bah! she will never come'"