JAQUES ROQUE.
Back It was but changing the Corporal into the Count,--and saying nothing about mounting guard on Wednesday,--and the letter was neither right nor wrong: --so, to gratify the poor fellow, who stood trembling for my honour, his own, and the honour of his letter,--I took the cream gently off it, and whipping it up in my own way, I seal'd it up and sent him with it to Madame de L-;--and the next morning we pursued our journey to Paris.
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