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And Prudence held out her hand to : "Come and see her; it will make her very happy"

"I have no desire to meet M de N"

"M de N is never there She can not endure hiuerite wishes to see me, she knohere I live; let her come to

see me, but, for my part, I will never put foot in the Rue d'Antin"

"Will you receive her well?"

"Certainly"

"Well, I am sure that she will come"

"Let her come"

"Shall you be out to-day?"

"I shall be at ho"

"I will tell her"

And Prudence left me

I did not even write to tell Olympe not to expectto see her one night a week She consoled

herself, I believe, with an actor from some theatre or other

I went out for dinner and came back almost immediately I had a fire lit

in ive you no idea of the different i the hour in which I waited; but when, toward nine o'clock, I