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We shall see For the present I have taken a plunge into the unknown My ti it

I have hidden nothing from Lampron As my friend he is pleased, I can see, at a resolve which keeps me in Paris; but his prudence cries out upon it

"It is easy enough to refuse a profession," he said; "harder to find another in its place What do you intend to do?"

"I don't know"

"My dear fellow, you seeht be permissible, at twenty-four it's a mistake"

"So much the worse, for I shall make the mistake If I have to live on little--well, you've tried that before now; I shall only be following you"

"That's true; I have knoant, and even now it attacks me sometimes; it's like influenza, which does not leave its victims all at once; but it is hard, I can tell you, to do without the necessaries of life; as for its luxuries--"

"Oh, of course, no one can do without its luxuries"

"You are incorrigible," he answered, with a laugh Then he said no les in uess from what quarter the ill blow?