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160 not salute her when they met each other in the lanes. As for Kehlmark's affection for Guidon, if she suffered from it involuntarily, she persisted in suspecting in it nothing abnormal or improper.

"Well, qui vivra verra! Mam'zelle Blandine. An occasion will soon arise to enlighten you as to the colour of the liaison between these two painters!" sneered Thibaut, delighted at his witty sally.

"Enough. Not another word!" cried Blandine. "I hardly know what prevents me from letting the Count know on the spot, of your abominable imputations—or rather, I know too well; for I would die of shame before daring to repeat to him what you have just said to me!"