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 1 3 |   bound, gilt-edged, entitled Manon Lescaut. There is something
 2 3 |    consisted of these words: ~Manon to Marguerite. ~Humility. ~
 3 3 |     of the word Humility? Was Manon to recognise in Marguerite,
 4 3 |     when I was going to bed. ~Manon Lescaut is a touching story.
 5 3 |       whom I owed the volume. Manon died in the desert, it is
 6 3 |     Marguerite, a sinner like Manon, and perhaps converted like
 7 3 |     desert than that in which Manon had found her last resting-place. ~
 8 3 |     painful agony. ~Then from Manon and Marguerite my mind wandered
 9 4 |     first leaf of the copy of Manon Lescaut. What could the
10 4 |      sale?" ~"Yes, a book." ~"Manon Lescaut?" ~"Precisely." ~"
11 13|   word benefits; I thought of Manon Lescaut squandering with
12 16|     to see me that I sent her Manon Lescaut. ~From that time,
13 17|       this time that she read Manon Lescaut, over and over again.
14 17|      loves, she can not do as Manon did. ~The duke wrote to
15 20| perfectly chaste women. Every Manon can have her own Des Grieux,
16 22|        for I dared not think. Manon Lescaut was open on the