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"Come, come, madame, be calht"

"This dress worries ive own Well, and Prudence?"

"She has not come yet, but I will send her to you, uerite went on, as she took off her dress and

put on a white dressing-gown, "there's one who knows very well how to

find me when she is in want of me, and yet she can't dofor an answer She kno anxious I

a about on her own account, without giving

a thought to me"

"Perhaps she had to wait"

"Let us have soood,so or other, at once I ary"

Need I tell you the iine it?

"You are going to have supper withinto -room for a moment"

She lit the candles of a candelabra, opened a door at the foot of the

bed, and disappeared

I began to think over this poor girl's life, and reat pity I walked to and fro in the roos, when Prudence entered

"Ah, you here?"' she said, "where is Marguerite?"