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"Indeed," said Louise, "I admire you, and I could almost say respect you" The laundress looked on in astonishment, but as she had been promised twenty louis, she made no remark

In a quarter of an hour the porter returned with a post-boy and horses, which were harnessed, and put in the post-chaise in a minute, while the porter fastened the portmanteau on with the assistance of a cord and strap "Here is the passport," said the postilion, "which way are we going, young gentleenie with an almost iving theiven twenty louis may betray us for forty; ill soon alter our direction" And the young girl jued for sleeping in, without scarcely touching the step "You are always right," said theherself by the side of her friend

A quarter of an hour afterwards the postilion, having been put in the right road, passed with a crack of his whip through the gateway of the Barriere Saint-Martin "Ah," said Louise, breathing freely, "here we are out of Paris"

"Yes, enie "Yes, and without violence," said Louise

"I shall bring that forward as an extenuating circuenie These words were lost in the noise which the carriage lars no longer had a daughter