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The Suitors of Yvonne

CHAPTER XIX
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But how follow it?
Then of a sudden I bethought me of Madame de Chevreuse's friendly letter.

Doubtless she would assist me once again, and in such an extremity as this.

And with the conception of the thought came the resolution to visit her on the morrow.

That formed, I gave myself up to the task of drinking M.de Montresor under the table with an abandon which had not been mine for months.

In each goblet that I drained, methought I saw Yvonne's sweet face floating on the surface of the red Armagnac; it looked now sad, now reproachful, still I drank on, and in each cup I pledged her..


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