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The Ink-Stain

CHAPTER VII
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Four days hence, at noon, I shall come to fetch you, and we will pay our first visit to the Salon together." Yes, I was a happy man! I walked fast, without seeing anything, my eyes lost in day dreams, my ears listening to celestial harmonies.

I seemed to wear a halo.

It abashed me somewhat; for there is something insolent in proclaiming on the housetops: "Look up at me, my heart is full, Jeanne is going to love me!" Decidedly, my brain was affected.
Near the fountain in the Luxembourg, in front of the old palace where the senate sits, two little girls were playing.

One pushed the other, who fell down crying, "Naughty Jeanne, naughty girl!" I rushed to pick her up, and kissed her before the eyes of her astonished nurse, saying, "No, Mademoiselle, she is the most charming girl in the world!" And M.Legrand! I still blush when I think of my conversation with M.
Legrand.

He was standing in a dignified attitude at the door of his shop.
"ITALIAN WAREHOUSE; DRESSED PROVISIONS; SPECIALTY IN COLONIAL PRODUCE." He and I are upon good terms; I buy oranges, licorice from him, and rum when I want to make punch.


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