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72 the vigilance of the porter at the door, and sprang into the coach beside her. We drove to a clothier's shop in the Fripperie where I donned once more a laced coat and sword. Manon paid for them, as I had not a penny about me, and, in her fear lest I might encounter some obstacle to my flight from St. Sulpice, she had opposed my returning to my room for a moment to get my money. My purse, moreover, was but scantily filled, and the munificence of B had made her rich enough to despise the small sum which she had persuaded me to leave behind.

Before we left the clothier's shop we held a consultation as to the course we should pursue. With a view of enhancing in my eyes the completeness of her sacrifice of B for my sake, she determined to act without the least consideration for him.

"I will leave him his furniture," she said, "for it belongs to him; but I shall take with me, as I am entitled to do, all the jewelry and about sixty thousand francs,