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Updated: May 28, 2025
Three times a day I called at Madame Pierson's and each time was refused admittance. I received one letter from her; she said that my assiduity was causing talk in the village, and begged me to call less frequently. Not a word about Mercanson or her illness.
"That is all they have said, and I supposed you knew that." "In a word, yes or no?" "Yes, sir, I think so, at least." I arose from the table and walked down the road; Mercanson was there. I expected he would try to avoid me; on the contrary he approached me. "Sir," he said, "you exhibited signs of anger which it does not become a man of my character to resent.
I left her precipitately, and rushed out to find Mercanson. I was told that he had gone out, and I entered his house to wait for him. I sat in the corner of the room on a priest's chair before a dirty black table. I was becoming impatient when I recalled my duel on account of my first mistress. "I received a wound from a bullet and am still a fool," I said to myself. "What have I come to do here?
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