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"Shall I wait for an answer?" asked Joseph (my servant, like all

servants, was called Joseph)

"If they ask whether there is a reply, you will say that you don't know,

and wait"

I buoyed myself up with the hope that she would reply Poor, feeble

creatures that we are! All the tiitation At one iven herself to ht I wrote her an

impertinent letter, when she could reply that it was not M de G who

supplanted

which permits many women to have many lovers At another moment I would

recall her promises, and endeavour to convince entle, and that there were not expressions forcible enough to

punish a wohed at a love like mine Then I said to myself

that I should have done better not to have written to her, but to have

gone to see her, and that then I should have had the pleasure of seeing

the tears that she would shed Finally, I asked myself what she would

reply to me; already prepared to believe whatever excuse she made

Joseph returned

"Well?" I said to him

"Sir," said he, "s the letter will be taken to her, and if there is any reply it will