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At this point Armand stopped

"Would you close theforto feel

cold Meanwhile, I will get into bed"

I closed theArown and lay down in bed, resting his head for a few mo or disturbed by

painfultoo much," I said to him "Would you

rather for o and leave you to sleep? You can tell me the rest of

the story another day"

"Are you tired of listening to it?"

"Quite the contrary"

"Then I will go on If you left me alone, I should not sleep"

When I returned ho to pause and

recollect himself, so fresh were all the details in his an to reflect over the day's adventure The uerite, had followed one another so

rapidly, and so unexpectedly, that there wereNevertheless, it was not the first tiuerite had promised herself to a man on the morrow of the

day on which he had asked for the proh, indeed, I made this reflection, the first i that it still persisted I

refused obstinately to see in her a woman like other women, and, with

the vanity so common to all men, I was ready to believe that she could

not but share the attraction which drew me to her

Yet, I had before me plenty of instances to the contrary, and I had