You must let all those feelings shine again on your features; for they alone can interest honest people, and you require the general sympathy more than ever.

My friendship is of little importance to you, but you may rely upon it all the more because I fancy that you have now a claim upon it which you had not a week ago: Be quite certain, I beg, that I will not abandon you until your position is properly settled.

I cannot at present tell you more; but be sure that I will think of you." "Ah, my friend! if you promise to think of me, I ask for no more.

Oh! unhappy creature that I am; there is not a soul in the world who thinks of me." She was: so deeply moved that she fainted away.

I came to her assistance without calling anyone, and when she had recovered her consciousness and some calm, I told her a hundred stories, true or purely imaginary, of the knavish tricks played in Paris by men who think of nothing but of deceiving young girls.