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V.' I looked eagerly at the student.

'Where did you find this ?' I said.
'I picked it up in the street,' he answered quietly, 'not three hundred paces from here.' I thought a moment.

'In the gutter, or near the wall ?' I asked.
'Near the wall, to be sure.' 'Under a window ?' 'Precisely,' he said.

'You may be easy; I am not a fool.

I marked the place, M.de Marsac, and shall not forget it.' Even the sorrow and solicitude I felt on my mother's behalf--feelings which had seemed a minute before to secure me against all other cares or anxieties whatever--were not proof against this discovery.