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Rh that the latter would favourably remember him, in case it pleased God to recall him to Paris; that if he did not return, I believed, nevertheless, that friendly relations would always exist between them; and that I was sure that he, Monsieur Tubeuf, would do nothing in this affair that would in any way displease him.

I then led him to the large hall where the small wing joins the main building, opened it for him, and, after having shown him that it was full from top to bottom with books on civil law and philosophy in folio, and of books of theology in quarto, I closed the door and locked it fast with a double turn, and delivered the key, by order of the said Sieur