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174 that I felt I might profit by it without a blush. We then started together for Chaillot, where I arrived in less anxious frame of mind than I had been in on leaving there that morning.

As the above narrative had occupied the Chevalier des Grieux more than an hour in the telling, I begged him to pause awhile for rest, and to favor us with his company at supper. Our close attention gave him every reason to believe that we had listened to him with pleasure. He assured us that we should find the sequel of his story even more interesting; and, as soon as we had finished supper, he continued as follows.