She made me a second courtesy in setting off, and before we got
twenty yards from the door, as if she had not done enough before,
she made a sort of a little stop to tell me again--she thank'd me.
It was a small tribute, I told her, which I could not avoid paying
to virtue, and would not be mistaken in the person I had been
rendering it to for the world;--but I see innocence, my dear, in
your face,--and foul befall the man who ever lays a snare in its
way!
The girl seem'd affected some way or other with what I said;--she
gave a low sigh: --I found I was not empowered to enquire at all
after it,--so said nothing more till I got to the corner of the Rue
de Nevers, where, we were to part.
- But is this the way, my dear, said I, to the Hotel de Modene?
She told me it was;--or that I might go by the Rue de Gueneguault,
which was the next turn.--Then I'll go, my dear, by the Rue de
Gueneguault, said I, for two reasons; first, I shall please myself,
and next, I shall give you the protection of my company as far on
your way as I can. The girl was sensible I was civil--and said,
she wished the Hotel de Modene was in the Rue de St. Pierre.--You
live there? said I.--She told me she was fille de chambre to Madame
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