I was very careful to conceal from her the fact that my purse was getting very light.

When we came back to Parma I had only three or four hundred sequins.
The day after our return M.d'Antoine invited himself to dine with us, and after we had drunk coffee, I left him alone with Henriette.

Their interview was as long as the first, and our separation was decided.

She informed me of it, immediately after the departure of M.d'Antoine, and for a long time we remained folded in each other's arms, silent, and blending our bitter tears.
"When shall I have to part from you, my beloved, alas! too much beloved one ?" "Be calm, dearest, only when we reach Geneva, whither you are going to accompany me.

Will you try to find me a respectable maid by to-morrow?
She will accompany me from Geneva to the place where I am bound to go." "Oh! then, we shall spend a few days more together! I know no one but Dubois whom I could trust to procure a good femme-de-chambre; only I do not want him to learn from her what you might not wish him to know." "That will not be the case, for I will take another maid as soon as I am in France." Three days afterwards, Dubois, who had gladly undertaken the commission, presented to Henriette a woman already somewhat advanced in years, pretty well dressed and respectable-looking, who, being poor, was glad of an opportunity of going back to France, her native country.