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"When did you co her

face with her handkerchief She seeed her to take the chair by the

She did so, mechanically, while he seated himself on the stool

"I returned day before yesterday," he answered, while he leaned his ar forth a crash of discordant sound

"Day before yesterday!" she repeated, aloud; and went on thinking to

herself, "day before yesterday," in a sort of an unco her at the very first hour, and he had

lived under the same sky since day before yesterday; while only by

accident had he stumbled upon her Mademoiselle must have lied when she

said, "Poor fool, he loves you"

"Day before yesterday," she repeated, breaking off a spray of

Madeeranium; "then if you had not met me here to-day you

wouldn't--when--that is, didn't you one to see you There have been so s--" he turned the leaves of Mademoiselle's music nervously "I

started in at once yesterday with the old firm After all there is as

ht find it

profitable soenial"

So he had coenial; because