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"But," said Celia, "without jewels and fine clothes and chic these

go for nothing in Paris At last, however, Mme Dauvray came in

with a party of friends froave me some supper She asked me about myself, and I told

her She was very kind, and took e She kept me a few days, and then she told

me that I was to live with her, for often she was lonely too, and

that if I would she would soive e portion So all my troubles seemed

to be at an end," said Celia, with a sht Mme Dauvray confided to Celia that there was a

new fortune-teller co into a crystal,

could tell the s about the future The old

woman's eyes kindled as she spoke She took Celia to the fortune-

teller's roo passion of the woman who had befriended her It took very

little time then for Celia to notice how easily Mme Dauvray was

duped, how perpetually she was robbed Celia turned the probleood to enuine affection in her voice "The people

e knew laughed at her, and were ungenerous But there are

many women whom the world respects who are worse than ever was

poor Mme Dauvray I was very fond of her, so I proposed to her

that we should hold a seance, and I would bring people from the

spirit world I knew that I could athan the fortune-tellers And at

the sa plundered That was all