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Iof this liaison in a few lines,

but I wanted you to see every step by which we cauerite to be unable to live apart fro when she came to seethat I could not change ed my own I wished above all not to leave myself time to think

over the position I had accepted, for, in spite of enerally so calm, assumed all

at once an appearance of noise and disorder Never believe, however

disinterested the love of a kept wo is so expensive as their caprices, flowers, boxes at

the theatre, suppers, days in the country, which one can never refuse to

one's mistress

As I have told you, I had little eneral at C He has a great reputation there for loyalty,

thanks to which he was able to find the security which he needed in

order to attain this position

It is worth forty thousand francs a year, and during the ten years that

he has had it, he has paid off the security and put aside a dowry for

my sister My father is the most honourable man in the world When

my mother died, she left six thousand francs a year, which he divided

between my sister and myself on the very day when he received his

appointment; then, when I enty-one, he added to this little inco ht live very happily at Paris, if, in