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 point of the evening turned out as heavy as lead. Mercifully. Chaudes-AiguésChaudes-Aigues (Charles Germain) [sic] got drunk, which broke the ice a little. Rachel asked me with so conciliating or coquettish an expression, if "we were still fighting," that I replied, "Why did you not ask me that three years ago. You know that I am not rancorous, and our quarrel would have blown over at once." She looked at me still more coquettishly, exclaiming, "How much time lost!" and we shook hands as good friends. Rachel has invited me to come and see her; I go every Thursday. That is the whole story.

The sequel is thus told by Paul de Musset in the Biography he wrote of his brother:—

Rachel left for England shortly afterwards. She had promised to write to "her poet," but did not keep her