Chapter

 1 1 |      himself of the truth of a story in which all the characters,
 2 1 |    been impossible to make the story at once interesting and
 3 1 |   lives; how? God knows. ~This story returned to my mind while
 4 2 |        return to them when the story itself has begun. ~Marguerite
 5 3 |    Manon Lescaut is a touching story. I know every detail of
 6 4 |       idea of writing down the story which I now write. ~The
 7 4 |        will tell you the whole story, and you will see if I have
 8 5 |  guessed at some pathetic love story under all this sorrow; perhaps
 9 7 |        must tell you the whole story; you will make a book out
10 7 | changed a word of the touching story. ~Yes (Armand went on, letting
11 7 |     own house. ~I recalled the story, and, having longed to suffer
12 11|        tell me the rest of the story another day." ~"Are you
13 16|       you is a true and simple story, and I leave to it all the
14 16|  mounting as high as the first story. ~I looked at the house
15 21|   honour of inventing some new story, so that you may give me
16 23|       occasions. To cut a long story short he gave her twenty
17 27|        by the narration of his story, soon recovered, and we
18 27|      Paris, where I wrote this story just as it had been told
19 27|        I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all
20 27|      its voice in prayer. ~The story of Marguerite is an exception,