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Confidence

CHAPTER XXII
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"Nature would have grown jealous of our good-humor--of our tranquil happiness.

And after all, here we are together again--that is, some of us.

But I have only my own audacity to thank for it.

I was quite free to believe that you were not at all pleased to see me re-appear--and it is only because I am not easy to discourage--am indeed probably a rather impudent fellow--that I have ventured to come here to-day." "I am very glad to see you re-appear, Mr.Longueville," Mrs.Vivian declared with the accent of veracity.
"It was your daughter's idea, then, running away from Blanquais ?" Mrs.Vivian lowered her eyes.
"We were obliged to go to Fontainebleau.

We have but just come back.


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