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"Because we must avoid needless excursions. At the place I have designated we are only two steps from Madame Charman's and near Tremorel's retreat; for the wretch has hired his rooms in the quarter of Notre Dame de Lorette." M. Plantat gave an exclamation of surprise. "What makes you think that?" The detective smiled, as if the question seemed foolish to him.
I am expected to dinner at Asnieres, and so " She was about to go away despite Mme. Charman's attempts to detain her, when M. Lecoq thought it was time to interfere. "Why, am I mistaken?" cried he, as if amazed; "is it really Miss Jenny whom I have the honor of seeing?" She scanned him with a half-angry, half-surprised air, and said: "Yes, it is I; what of it?" "What! Are you so forgetful?
A gentleman will not, if-it can possibly be avoided, reveal circumstances likely to cause pain. Must he, then, tell or imply a falsehood. The whole truth involved a reproach of Mrs. Charman's husband a thought he could not bear. The next evening found him still worrying over this dilemma. He reached Mrs. Charman's house without having come to any decision.
These were his satisfactions. They compensate astonishingly for the loss of many kinds of self-esteem. But it happened one day that, as he was in the act of drawing his poor little quarterly salvage at the Bank of England, a lady saw him and knew him. It was Mr. Charman's widow. 'Why, Mr. Tymperley, what has become of you all this time? Why have I never heard from you?
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