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more' 'Meet no more!--not well bestowed!' exclaimed Theresa 'What do I hear?

No, mademoiselle, my love ell bestowed, for it was the Chevalier

Valancourt, who gave e, ever since M Quesnel turned me from my master's house'

'The Chevalier Valancourt!' said E extreh he made me promise not to tell;

but how could one help, when one heard hi

lady, you may eep, if you have behaved unkindly to hientleman had He found me out in my

distress, when you was too far off to help o to service again--Alas! I was too old for

that!--The Chevalier found ave me

money to furnish it, and bade me seek out another poor woman to live

with me; and he ordered his brother's steward to pay me, every quarter,

that which has supported me in comfort Think then, mademoiselle,

whether I have not reason to speak well of the Chevalier And there are

others, who could have afforded it better than he: and I aenerosity, for quarter day is gone by long

since, and no money for me! But do not weep so, mademoiselle: you are

not sorry surely to hear of the poor Chevalier's goodness?'