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T, unless she can raise thirty thousand francs." "All right, I will
provide that amount." "You will borrow it?" "Good heavens! Why, yes!" "A
fine thing that will be to do; you will fall out with your father,
cripple your resources, and one doesn't find thirty thousand francs from
one day to another. Believe me, my dear Armand, I know women better than
you do; do not commit this folly; you will be sorry for it one day. Be
reasonable. I don't advise you to leave Marguerite, but live with her as
you did at the beginning. Let her find the means to get out of this
difficulty. The duke will come back in a little while. The Comte de N.,
if she would take him, he told me yesterday even, would pay all her
debts, and give her four or five thousand francs a month. He has two
hundred thousand a year. It would be a position for her, while you will
certainly be obliged to leave her. Don't wait till you are ruined,
especially as the Comte de N. is a fool, and nothing would prevent your
still being Marguerite's lover. She would cry a little at the beginning,
but she would come to accustom herself to it, and you would thank me one
day for what you had done. Imagine that Marguerite is married, and
deceive the husband; that is all. I have already told you all this once,
only at that time it was merely advice, and now it is almost a
necessity." What Prudence said was cruelly true. "This is how it is,"
she went on, putting away the papers she had just shown me; "women like
Marguerite always foresee that some one will love them, never that they
will love; otherwise they would put aside money, and at thirty they
could afford the luxury of having a lover for nothing. If I had only
known once what I know now! In short, say nothing to Marguerite, and
bring her back to Paris. You have lived with her alone for four or five
months; that is quite enough. Shut your eyes now; that is all that any
one asks of you. At the end of a fortnight she will t
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