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All these suppositions, as you ht have been the reason of her consent, one thing was

certain, she had consented

Noas in love with Marguerite I had nothing h she was only a kept woman, I had so anticipated for

myself, perhaps to poetize it a little, a hopeless love, that the nearer

themore to hope, the ht

I scarcely knew myself I was half deant enough to possess such a woht of it; then I began to fear lest

Marguerite had no more than a few days' caprice for me, and I said to

myself that since we should soon have to part, it would be better not to

keep her appointment, but to write and tell her my fears and leave her

From that I went on to unlimited hope, unbounded confidence I dreamed

incredible dreams of the future; I said to myself that she should owe

to me her moral and physical recovery, that I should spend my whole life

with her, and that her love should make me happier than all the maidenly

loves in the world

But I can not repeat to you the thousand thoughts that rose from my

heart to my head, and that only faded aith the sleep that came to