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'I thank you for your pity, Annette,' said E her: 'but

my aunt was unhappy then, and that disturbed her temper perhaps, or I

think--I am sure--You may take away, Annette, I have done' 'Dearat all! Do try, and take a

little bit more Disturbed her temper truly! why, her temper is always

disturbed, I think And at Tholouse too I have heardof

you and Mons Valancourt to Madame Merveille and Madame Vaison, often

and often, in a very ill-natured way, as I thought, telling them what

a deal of trouble she had to keep you in order, and what a fatigue and

distress it was to her, and that she believed you would run aith

Mons Valancourt, if she was not to watch you closely; and that you

connived at his coht, and--'

'Good God!' exclai deeply, 'it is surely impossible

my aunt could thus have representedht,better to

discourse about, than the faults of her own niece, even if you had been