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place in the diligence for C, whereable to get away from Paris in

this fine weather"

I looked at Prudence, askingat o and say good-bye to Marguerite?" she continued, as

seriously as before

"No"

"You are quite right"

"You think so?"

"Naturally Since you have broken with her, why should you see her

again?"

"You know it is broken off?"

"She showed me your letter"

"What did she say about it?"

"She said: 'My dear Prudence, your protege is not polite; one thinks

such letters, one does not write thely," and she added: "He has had supper with me twice, and hasn't

even called"

That, then, was the effect produced by my letter and my jealousy I was

cruelly humiliated in the vanity of my affection