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Marguerite was a woman in the same position as Olympe, and yet I should

never have dared say to her the first time I uerite I saw in her instincts which were

lacking in the other, and at the very ust toward the wo it

She accepted, of course, in the end, and at midday I left her house as

her lover; but I quitted her without a recollection of the caresses

and of the words of love which she had felt bound to shower upon me in

return for the six thousand francs which I left with her And yet there

were men who had ruined theuerite a continual persecution Olyine I gave aance which could be expected of a man in love with such a woman

as Olympe The report of my new infatuation was immediately spread

abroad

Prudence herself was taken in, and finally thought that I had couerite herself, whether she guessed my motive

or was deceived like everybody else, preserved a perfect dignity in

response to the insults which I heaped upon her daily Only, she seemed

to suffer, for whenever I met her she was more and more pale, more

and more sad My love for her, carried to the point at which it was