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Finally, she gave him to understand,
that rather than continue longer in such confinement with the man
whom she could not love, she would instantly give him the slip,
and put herself under the protection of her lover.
Rash and unthinking as this declaration might be, the young
gentleman was so much of a gallant, that he would not balk the
lady's inclinations; and too infatuated by his passion to foresee
the consequences of such a dangerous step: he therefore, without
hesitation, embraced the proposal; and the coast being clear, they
sallied out into the street, where Peregrine, calling a fiacre,
ordered the coachman to drive them to a tavern; but knowing it
would not be in his power to conceal her from the search of the
lieutenant de police, if she should remain within the walls of Paris,
he hired a remise, and carried her that same evening to Villejuif,
about four leagues from town, where he stayed with her all night;
and having boarded her on a genteel pension, and settled the economy
of his future visits, returned next day to his own lodgings.


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