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A PARISIAN ROMANCE 147 his office, and I have two lessons to give between three and five.” “Just my luck!” cried the doctor, evidently greatly disappointed. “Well, it cannot be helped, I suppose. But you must go with me some Sunday to see my cottage, and I hope that you will be able to spend several weeks there this summer.” “With all my heart, my friend, if we can arrange it,” replied Madame de Targy. “That is good. I shall hold you to vour promise. Do you know,” he continued, glancing about the room, “this little apartment of yours is really de- lightful. I like it a hundred times better than those creat glittering rooms in the Avenue de |’ Alma.” Madame de Targy glanced up at him with a look full of content. “So dol!” she replied. “Is it not pleasant? We are really very comfortable.” The doctor nodded his head, and then bending his eyes upon her scrutinizingly, he asked in.a seri- ous tone: “Tell me, how is everything going with vou?” “With me?” she answered, brightly. “Marvel- ously well. Iam really happy. After having car- ried so long that frightful secret, which you alone suspected, my good doctor, I feel as if I had been relieved from the weight of a mountain; and then I am so proud of my son’s conduct, of his heroic courage. Yes, indeed, I am really happy. I feel as if I were about twenty years old! when I go to Gomicbooks:sco AA