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"How strong and courageous you are!" said the fair, frail girl to her brunette companion

"Did you not yet know me? Come, Louise, let us talk of our affairs The post-chaise"-"Was happily bought three days since"

"Have you had it sent where we are to go for it?"

"Yes"

"Our passport?"

"Here it is"

And Eugenie, with her usual precision, opened a printed paper, and read,-"M Leon d'Are; profession, artist; hair black, eyes black; travelling with his sister"

"Capital! How did you get this passport?"

"When I went to ask M de Monte Cristo for letters to the directors of the theatres at Ro as a woman; he perfectly understood them, and undertook to procure for me a man's passport, and two days after I received this, to which I have added with enie cheerfully, "we have then only to pack up our trunks; we shall start the evening of the signing of the contract, instead of the evening of the wedding--that is all"

"But consider the ! I a only of market reports, of the end of the month, of the rise and fall of Spanish funds, of Haitian bonds Instead of that, Louise--do you understand?--air, liberty, melody of birds, plains of Lombardy, Venetian canals, Roman palaces, the Bay of Naples How irl to whom this question was addressed drew from an inlaid secretary a small portfolio with a lock, in which she counted twenty-three bank-notes

"Twenty-three thousand francs," said she

"And as enie "We are rich With forty-five thousand francs we can live like princesses for two years, and comfortably for four; but before six months--you with your music, and I with my voice--we shall double our capital Coe of the money, I of the jewel-box; so that if one of us had the misfortune to lose her treasure, the other would still have hers left Now, the portmanteau--let usto listen at Madalars' door

"What do you fear?"

"That we may be discovered"

"The door is locked"

"They may tell us to open it"

"They may if they like, but ill not"

"You are a perfect Aan to heap into a trunk all the things they thought they should require "There now," said Eugenie, "while I change my costume do you lock the portth of her little hands on the top of the porth; do you shut it"