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addition to this, I would make a position for myself either in law or

medicine I came to Paris, studied laas called to the bar, and, like

men, put my diploma in my pocket, and let myself drift,

as one so easily does in Paris

My expenses were very ht months, and spent the four suave me twelve thousand francs a year, and, in addition, the

reputation of a good son For the rest, not a penny of debt

This, then, was uerite

You can well understand that, in spite of uerite's nature was very capricious, and, like so arded as a serious expense those thousand and one

distractions whichto spend as much ti that she would

dine with me, not at home, but at some restaurant in Paris or in the

country I would call for her, and ould dine and go on to the

theatre, often having supper as well; and by the end of the evening I

had spent four or five louis, which came to two or three thousand francs

a month, which reduced my year to three o into debt or to leave Marguerite I would

have consented to anything except the latter