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Next day Marguerite sentat an early hour, and pro to write to me theIn the course of the

day I received this note: "I aht at

eight"

At the appointed hour Marguerite came to me at Mme Duvernoy's "Well,

it is all settled," she said, as she entered "The house is taken?"

asked Prudence "Yes; he agreed at once"

I did not know the duke, but I felt ashauerite

"What else is there?"

"I have been seeing about a place for Ar

"No, at Point du Jour, where we had dinner, the duke and I While he

was ad the view, I asked Mme Arnould (she is called Mme Arnould,

isn't she?) if there were any suitable roo: salon, anteroom, and bed-room, at sixty francs a month; the

whole place furnished in a way to divert a hypochondriac I took it Was

I right?" I flung ," she continued "You have the key of the little

door, and I have promised the duke the key of the front door, which