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"What did Marguerite say after I had gone?"

"She laughed, and said she had never seen any one so funny But don't

look upon it as a lost chance; only do not do these wo them seriously They do not knohat politeness and ceres--they would think it

sutter"

"After all, what does itto speak in a

nonchalant way "I shall never see this woain, and if I liked her

beforeher, it is quite different now that I know her"

"Bah! I don't despair of seeing you one day at the back of her box,

and of bearing that you are ruining yourself for her However, you are

right, she hasn't been well brought up; but she would be a char

mistress to have"

Happily, the curtain rose and my friend was silent I could not possibly

tell you what they were acting All that I remember is that from time to

time I raised my eyes to the box I had quitted so abruptly, and that the

faces of fresh visitors succeeded one another all the tiuerite Another

feeling had taken possession of me It seemed to me that I had her

insult and my absurdity to wipe out; I said to myself that if I spent