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"You swear it?"

"Do I need to swear it?"

Hoeet it is to let oneself be persuaded by the voice that one loves!

Marguerite and I spent the whole day in talking over our projects for

the future, as if we felt the need of realizing them as quickly as

possible At every moing us any new tidings

Next day I left at ten o'clock, and reached the hotel about twelve My

father had gone out

I went to one there No one

had called I went to the solicitor's No one was there I went back to

the hotel, and waited till six M Duval did not return, and I went back

to Bougival

I found Marguerite not waiting forby the fire, which the weather still hts that I ca me When I put my lips to her forehead she started as if the

kiss had suddenly awakened her