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"Life is hard, Mon alish are

here, it is difficult to keep fro to insinuate that I had aroused her

reflection--I warmed--but no--She had taken me seriously when I told her

I required no blandishain

"You like the English?"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"They are very bons garçons, they are clean, and they are fine men,

they have sentihed

"What do you do when you fall in love then, Suzette?"

"Mon aht to the sea--one is lost if

one falls in love dans le metier--The ood one must never feel"

"But you have a kind heart Suzette--you feel for me?"

"Hein?"--and she showed all her little white pointed

teeth--"Thou?--Thou art very rich, mon chou Women will always feel

for thee!"

It went in like a knife it was so true--

"I was a very fine English, and showing the right

profile--and full of chic--and then rich, rich!"