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 Thus ended all the stories of siege and conquest. A little while after the company: broke up, Caroline gave the count her hand to help her into the carriage, and we both returned home apparently happy and contented. CHAP. III.

count was wont every night before we retired to rest, to come into my bed-chamber to chat with me for an hour and lay himself down on the sopha; on which he would frequently fall asleep, when I was obliged to wake and make him go down stairs. This night, however, his head was so full of what had happened, that, forgetting his former habitude, he immediately betook himself to his own apartment on the first floor, which occasioned one of the most ludicrous scenes I ever witnessed.

I inhabited the second story, and the ground floor was occupied by Madame le B**, our hoftess, by profession a milliner,