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An Old Maid

CHAPTER III
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Put on that handsome frilled shirt and your green coat of Elbeuf cloth.

I have my reasons," she added slyly.

"Besides, Mademoiselle Cormon is going to Prebaudet, and many persons will doubtless call to bid her good-bye.
When a young man is marriageable he ought to take every means to make himself agreeable.

If girls would only tell the truth, heavens! my dear boy, you'd be astonished at what makes them fall in love.

Often it suffices for a man to ride past them at the head of a company of artillery, or show himself at a ball in tight clothes.


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