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The uerite had no

reason for feigning a love which she did not feel, and I said to , one of which may arise from the

other: they love with the heart or with the senses Often a woman takes

a lover in obedience to theit the h her heart; often a girl who has sought in e only the

union of two pure affections receives the sudden revelation of physical

love, that energetic conclusion of the purest ihts I fell asleep; I akened by a letter

fro these words: "Here arethe third entr'acte"

I put the letter into a drawer, so that I ht always have it at band

in case I doubted its reality, as I did from ti the day, and I dared not

go; but I had so great a desire to see her before the evening that I

went to the Chaain saw her pass and repass, as I

had on the previous day

At seven o'clock I was at the Vaudeville Never had I gone to a theatre

so early The boxes filled one after another Only one re of the third act I heard the door of