standing rigidly to attention as was his custom when addressing

the bed in two months' time, toward the twenty-fifth of December,

and next week a sculptor would come to make a model for the Night.

As she accompanied him to the door Nana remembered the baker and

"By the by, you wouldn't be having ten louis about you?"

Labordette made it a solemn rule, which stood him in good stead,

never to lend women money. He used always to make the same reply.

"No, my girl, I'm short. But would you like me to go to your little

She refused; it was useless. Two days before she had succeeded in

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