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CHAPTER VII
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My heart was rejuvenated, but my head remained old.

I was, therefore, not in the least discouraged by this change of humor, and the fit of anger which it portended.
"'Now,' said I to myself, 'there is an end to coquetry, it is beaten on all sides; it is gone, never to return.

She has seen that the affair is a little too deep for that, and the field not tenable.

She will erect barriers in order to defend herself and will no longer attack.' Thus we pass from the period of amiable smiles, sweet glances, and half-avowals to that of severity and prudery, while waiting for the remorse and despair of the denouement.

I am sure that at this time she called to her help all her powers of resistance.


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