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Frouerite at the theatre or in

the Chaaiety in her, the saht passed without irl, she is very ill," he answered

"What is the matter?"

"She is consumptive, and the sort of life she leads isn't exactly the

thing to cure her She has taken to her bed; she is dying"

The heart is a strange thing; I was al it

Every day I went to ask after her, without leaving one to Bagneres

Tiradually from my

mind I travelled; love affairs, habits, work, took the place of other

thoughts, and when I recalled this adventure I looked upon it as one of

those passions which one has when one is very young, and laughs at soon