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The American

CHAPTER XIV
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"I don't know how he arranges it." "I arrange it by adoring you, my sister," said Valentin ardently.
"Good-by." "Adore some one whom you can marry," said Newman.

"I will arrange that for you some day.

I foresee that I am going to turn apostle." Valentin was on the threshold; he looked back a moment with a face that had turned grave.

"I adore some one I can't marry!" he said.

And he dropped the portiere and departed.
"They don't like it," said Newman, standing alone before Madame de Cintre.
"No," she said, after a moment; "they don't like it." "Well, now, do you mind that ?" asked Newman.
"Yes!" she said, after another interval.
"That's a mistake." "I can't help it.


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