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our arrival at Paris we took a furnished apartment in the Rue V and (to my sorrow, as events proved) near the house of Monsieur de B, a well-known Farmer-General. Three weeks went by, during which I was so entirely absorbed in my passion that I scarcely gave a thought to my family, or to the grief which my father must have felt at my absence. As, however, there was nothing approaching to debauchery in my conduct, and as Manon also behaved with every regard for propriety, the quietness of our life served to recall me gradually to a sense of duty.