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  1 1 |          already scarce enough for two, and would certainly not
  2 1 |         was being marched along by two policemen. I do not know
  3 2 |         little blue coupe drawn by two magnificent bays, and I
  4 2 |            of indescribable grace, two black eyes, surmounted by
  5 2 |          parted on the forehead in two large folds and draped back
  6 2 |           in which there glittered two diamonds, worth four to
  7 3 |          pink or blue, and driving two big black horses which Tony
  8 3 |          by her bedside during the two months of her long and painful
  9 3 |            God almost always opens two ways which lead thither
 10 3 |      setting at the outset of life two sign-posts, one bearing
 11 4 |                         Chapter 4 ~Two days after, the sale was
 12 4 |       creditors divided among them two thirds, and the family,
 13 4 |          card and there read these two words: Armand Duval. ~I
 14 4 |           that is it in deed," and two big tears fell on the pages. "
 15 4 |          What did you think of the two lines that I wrote in it?" ~"
 16 4 |         for I could not take those two lines as a mere empty compliment." ~"
 17 4 |     MARGUERITE GAUTIER." ~The last two words were scarcely legible.
 18 6 |           well?" continued Armand. Two big tears rolled down the
 19 6 |       Jacques Rousseau. There were two letters addressed to Duval.
 20 6 |           had been taken away, and two men were turning up the
 21 6 |          eyes. Suddenly one of the two pickaxes struck against
 22 6 |          The eyes were nothing but two holes, the lips had disappeared,
 23 7 |         its height, from twelve to two. I was careful not to refer
 24 7 |           you, my friend, that for two years the sight of this
 25 7 |        without being seen, saw the two women pass me, accompanied
 26 7 |            pass me, accompanied by two young men. At the entrance
 27 7 |             one by one. One of the two men was leaning over her
 28 7 |         though she might have been two years earlier, I should
 29 7 |           that it was she; and the two years that had passed since
 30 8 |          they were whirled away by two superb horses. ~We returned
 31 8 |           never goes to bed before two in the morning. She can'
 32 8 |          for Marguerite; there are two reasons why he is likely
 33 8 |        hindering you?" ~"There are two young fellows here who won'
 34 9 |          was at the Opera Comique, two years ago; I was with Ernest
 35 9 |            have only known you for two months," replied the count. ~"
 36 9 |      especially in the presence of two strangers. ~"You were playing
 37 9 |            pride and independence, two sentiments which, if they
 38 9 |     believe that I sometimes spend two hours of the morning over
 39 9 | dressing-room, where she showed me two miniatures hanging side
 40 9 |           is no good at the end of two years to make love to a
 41 9 |           chest were being torn in two. The poor girl turned crimson,
 42 10|             and in spite of myself two tears fell upon it. ~"Why,
 43 10|          know it. I was in bed for two months, and after three
 44 10|  Marguerite, that you were ill for two months, and that for two
 45 10|           two months, and that for two months I came to ask after
 46 10|                Because only one of two things can come of it." ~"
 47 10|            not having seen you for two years, you made a deeper
 48 11|            daily visits during the two months of her illness, might
 49 11|     daybreak. ~When I awoke it was two o'clock. The weather was
 50 12|         loves him. How? why? Their two existences are henceforth
 51 12|         out from the memory of the two lovers. It is curious, one
 52 12|        myself also that women have two ways of loving, one of which
 53 12|         marriage only the union of two pure affections receives
 54 12|           acte she turned and said two words: the count left the
 55 13|          be her lover for a month, two months; give her flowers,
 56 13|        closed her doors to him for two days; he came this morning
 57 13|        accept one liaison, but not two. Such easiness in the matter
 58 13|          only known Marguerite for two days, she has only been
 59 13|             and to be as gay as my two companions; but what was
 60 13|         and you would gladly spend two or three months alone with
 61 14|        which I had accepted during two nights. What I had done
 62 14|        with her; withdrawing after two days, was I not like a parasite
 63 14|       self-esteem of a woman when, two days after one has become
 64 15|          coming back to me, "it is two ladies." ~"It is we, Armand,"
 65 15|          her, knelt down, took her two hands, and, deeply moved,
 66 15|        been amusing for her to see two more arrive." ~During this
 67 15|        Duchess So and So, if I had two hundred thousand francs
 68 15|               I think that you are two children who haven't an
 69 16|          five louis, which came to two or three thousand francs
 70 16|       defect is that they have not two hundred thousand francs
 71 16|          and we went on foot, like two children, in the dim alleys
 72 16|          was not in need of money, two things which, I thought,
 73 16|           charming little house of two stories, with a semicircular
 74 16|          was empty, and to let for two thousand francs. ~"Would
 75 16|        Prudence, "that when I have two days free I will come and
 76 17|        hear what it was about. The two women shut themselves into
 77 17|          she murmured, putting her two arms around my neck. "I
 78 17|         not to be happy long. ~For two months we had not even been
 79 17|              The duke wrote to her two or three times. She recognised
 80 18|          of our love, we were like two divers who only come to
 81 18|      sharply. "Serve the dinner." ~Two days afterward there came
 82 18|          to Paris." ~Prudence came two days afterward, and confirmed
 83 18|           Marguerite had said. The two women went for a walk in
 84 18|    thousand francs a month. He has two hundred thousand a year.
 85 18|          sum?" ~"Before the end of two months." ~"She shall have
 86 19|           How long will that last? Two or three months, and then
 87 19|        with this alone I will make two thousand francs a year.
 88 19|          house just big enough for two people. You are independent,
 89 19|       father that I was on my way. Two hours later I was at the
 90 20|            and stay for a month or two with your sister and me.
 91 21|           happened during the last two days. I spent the night
 92 21|      stupor. She had not slept for two nights. ~Her rest was of
 93 21|          held out his hand. ~"Your two visits have given me pleasure,
 94 22|          another hour, but that at two o'clock, if Marguerite had
 95 22|            under that sombre sky. ~Two o'clock struck. I still
 96 22|        upon me. ~I overtook one or two wagons, which I soon left
 97 22|            on my way again. I took two hours to reach the Barriere
 98 22|       preferred to remain in doubt two minutes longer, for, as
 99 23|           they took fright, and in two days she would have been
100 24|           one hundred and fifty or two hundred louis, which I spread
101 24|           to go out all day. About two there was a ring, and Prudence
102 24|            you, Armand, for I have two things to ask: pardon for
103 24|     solitude in which she left me. Two hours afterward I was still
104 25|  interrupted by his tears, put his two hands over his forehead
105 25|      embraced me once more. I felt two grateful tears on my forehead,
106 26|            became what it had been two years before I knew you.
107 26|          did not say twenty words. Two big tears fell from his
108 26|            her last agony at about two o'clock. Never did a martyr
109 26|          by the cries she uttered. Two or three times she sat upright
110 26|          was escaping toward God. ~Two or three times also she
111 26|            at Saint Roch, I burned two candles for her, and I prayed
112 26|         the way to Montmartre only two men followed it: the Comte
113 26|         duke, who was supported by two footmen. ~I write you these