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Updated: April 30, 2025
I went seven different times to Mongenod's lodging and did not find him; each time I left my name with the landlady. At last I wrote again: 'Monsieur, if you do not wish to lose my respect, as you have my friendship, you will treat me now as a stranger, that is to say, with politeness; and you will tell me when you will be ready to pay your note, which is now due.
A charming person opened the door, oh, such a pretty young woman! who looked at me rather suspiciously and kept the door half closed. 'I am Alain, a friend of Mongenod's, I said. Instantly the door opened wide, and I entered a miserable garret, which was, nevertheless, kept with the utmost neatness.
And so for the last year we have not sufficed for our affairs, and we needed, as you see, a book-keeper." While speaking, she studied Godefroid's face; he, on his part, did not know how to take this extraordinary confidence. But as the scene in the counting-room at Mongenod's came often to his mind, he hovered between doubt and belief. "Ah, you will be very happy!" she said.
I have often accused you, cursed you. 'You had the right to do so, Alain, he replied, blushing; 'you suffered, and through me. I took Mongenod's note from my desk and returned it to him. 'You will all stay and breakfast with me, I hope? I said to the family. 'On condition that you dine with us, said Mongenod. 'We arrived yesterday.
Giving himself up to this desire, he related to her all the mistakes of his life, and much that he could not tell at Mongenod's, where his confidences had been confined to his actual situation. "Poor child!" That exclamation, falling now and then from Madame de la Chanterie's lips as he went on, dropped like balm upon the heart of the sufferer.
It is because, after hearing your confidence at Monsieur Mongenod's, I thought there seemed a likeness between your situation and ours, that I induced my four friends to receive you among us; besides, we wanted another monk in our convent. But what are you going to do? No one can face solitude without some moral resources."
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