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 As soon as it grew dark, the maid brought her a light, which she kept burning all the night. She was scarcely dressed in the morning, when Madame Fleury tapped at the door to inform her breakfast was ready. Madeline immediately opened the door, and attended her to the parlour, where, to her great vexation, she found Dupont.

"So, so (said his aunt, as if a little surprised by seeing him), you are here! what, I suppose you could not rest till you had paid your devoirs to Mademoiselle?"

"I should be sorry (said Madeline, with some degree of haughtiness), to place to my own account a visit which I neither expected nor desired."

"And yet you would be right in doing so," cried Dupont.

Madeline made no reply, but addressed herself on some indifferent subject to Madame Fleury.