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It is better for the good child that she has not gone through these evil days full of blood and grief with us. But I am always thinking of her, and when one of these two children here looks up to me so gravely with great, open eyes, it always makes me think of my Solonge. She has exactly such large, innocent eyes, and that touches my heart so that I cannot be harsh with the children.

They, of course, are not at all to blame for having such bad, miserable parents, who have treated the people shamefully, and made them poor and wretched. No, they have had nothing to do with it, and I cannot be severe with the children, for I am always thinking of my little Solonge! I will provoke the Austrian woman as much as I can, but not the children no, not the children!"

He naturally thought such mundane things could not interest me on my wedding night. I caught sight of the little pile and asked Alathea to bring them to me. She did. One from Coralie was lying on top and one immediately under it from Solonge de Clerté! Alathea saw that they were both in female writing. The rest were bills and business. "Do you permit me to open them?" I asked punctiliously.

I laughed a little angrily "With whom could I possibly be in love, chère amie?! You would not suggest that Odette or Coralie or Alice could cause such an emotion!" "Oh! for them perhaps no they are for the senses of men they are the exotic flowers of this forcing time they have their uses although I myself abhor them as types but is there no one else?" "Solonge de Clerté?

In the afternoon Maurice and Alwood Chester, and Madame de Clerté came to see me, and all exclaimed at my improved appearance. "Why you look like a million dollars, Nicholas," Alwood said, "What is up, old bird?" "I am getting well, that is all." "We are going to have a party on Sunday to introduce you to the loveliest young girl in Paris," Solonge announced.

She has got good feet, too, thin like the hands . How worn her clothes look does she never have a new dress ? Yes Burton, I will see Madame de Clerté . Solonge de Clerté is a philosopher she has her own aims but I do not know them. "Writing a book, Nicholas?"

"The daughter of a friend of mine without a great dot, but that does not matter for you, Nicholas. We think that you should marry and marry a jeune fille francaise!" "That is sweet of you. I have shown how I appreciate young girls, have not I?" "For that no!" she laughed, "But the time has come ." I felt amused, what will Alathea think of these, my friends? Solonge is the best of them.

How I would love to have Alathea for my wife and have children It can't be possible that I have written that! I loathe children in the abstract they bore me to death Even Solonge de Clerté's two entertaining angels but to have a son with Alathea's eyes God! how the thought makes me feel!