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you would rather wait for the more substantial meal which I have ordered?"
Clarisse made no reply. She did not even seem to listen to what he was
could not fail to utter.
He cleared the table of all the things that lay upon it and put them on
lunch, some fruit and a bottle of champagne in an ice-pail.
Then the two waiters withdrew.
"Sit down, dear lady. As you see, I was thinking of you and your cover
do honour to his invitation, he sat down, began to eat and continued:
"Yes, upon my word, I hoped that you would end by consenting to this
so assiduous a watch upon me, I did nothing but say to myself, 'I wonder
really puzzled. Especially after our departure from Paris. I had lost
abandoned the pursuit which was so gratifying to me. When I went for
your hair just touched with gray. But, this morning, I understood: the
take up her quarters, so to speak, by my bedside. From that moment I
in the restaurant as usual--I should find you arranging my things to
two covers: one for your humble servant, the other for his fair friend."
She was listening to him now and in the greatest terror. So Daubrecq
and all her schemes!
In a low voice, anxious-eyed, she asked:
"You did it on purpose, did you not? You only went away to drag me with
with a little cluck of delight.
She half-rose from her chair and, bending toward him, thought, as she
which she would commit. One revolver-shot and the odious brute was done
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