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The sale was to take place on the 16th A day's interval had been left

between the visiting days and the sale, in order to give tis, curtains, etc I had just returned frouerite's death a the pieces

of nehich one's friends always tell on returning after an absence

Marguerite was a pretty woh, their death makes very little They are suns which set

as they rose, unobserved Their death, when they die young, is heard

of by all their lovers at the same moment, for in Paris almost all

the lovers of a well-knooed, and everybody's life goes on as if the incident had never

occurred, without so much as a tear

Nowadays, at twenty-five, tears have beco that they

are not to be squandered indiscriminately It is thewept over are wept over in

return for the price they pay

As for uerite's

belongings, that instinctive indulgence, that natural pity that I have

already confessed, setover her death,over I reuerite in the