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to look for my heart, which I dropped through the trap into your room.”
“Rash youth!” said the actress, “you might have killed yourself!”
“Listen, Sidonia,” continued Rodolphe, showing her the letter he had just received. “You see, wealth and glory smile on me; let love do the same!”
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The following morning, by means of a masculine disguise, which Sidonia procured for him, Rodolphe was enabled to escape from his uncle’s lodging. He ran to the secretary of the academy of floral games, to receive a crown of gold sweet-brier, worth three hundred francs, which lived
The space of the day.”
A month after, Monsieur Monetti was invited by his nephew to assist at the first representation of The Avenger.” Thanks to the talent of Mademoiselle Sidonia, the piece had a run of seventeen nights, and brought in forty francs to its author.
Some time later—it was in the warm season—Rodolphe lodged in the Avenue St. Cloud, third tree as you go out of the Bois de Boulogne, on the fifth branch.