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 lated for solitude than society, and must therefore again entreat Madame Fleury's permission to retire to my room."

"Then you will entreat in vain I assure you (cried she); I have no notion of letting you go to mope about by yourself."

"If you thus restrain me, Madam (said Madeline, who every moment grew more anxious to quit Dupont), you will prevent me from having the pleasure of thinking myself at home."

"True (cried Dupont), where there is restraint, there can be no pleasure; permit Mademoiselle Jernac, therefore, Madame (addressing his aunt) to leave us, since she is so cruel as to desire to do so; perhaps our ready compliance with her wishes will at some other time incline her to be more propitious to our's."

"Well, you may go, child (said Madame Fleury); but indeed 'tis only to oblige my nephew that I let you."