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struck me at the time and—”
Adèle here came running up again。
“Monsieur; John has just been to say that your agent has called and wishes to see you。”
“Ah! in that case I must abridge。 Opening the window; I walked in upon them; liberated Céline from my protection; gave her notice to vacate her hotel; offered her a purse for immediate exigencies; disregarded screams; hysterics; prayers; protestations; convulsions; made an appointment with the vite for a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne。 Next morning I had the pleasure of encountering him; left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms; feeble as the wing of a chicken in the pip; and then thought I had done with the whole crew。 But unluckily the Varens; six months before; had given me this filette Adèle; who; she affirmed; was my daughter; and perhaps she may be; though I see no proofs of such grim paternity written in her countenance: Pilot is more like me than she。 Some years after I had broken with the mother; she abandoned her child; and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer。 I acknowledged no natural claim on Adèle’s part to be supported by me; nor do I now acknowledge any; for I am not her father; but hearing that she was quite destitute; I e’en took the poor thing out of the slime and mud of Paris; and transplanted it here; to grow up clean in the wholesome soil of an English country garden。 Mrs。 Fairfax found you to train it; but now you know that it is the illegitimate offspring of a French opera… girl; you will perhaps think differently of your post and protégée: you will be ing to me some day with notice that you have found another place—that you beg me to look out for a new governess; &c。—Eh?”
“No: Adèle is not answerable for either her mother’s faults or yours: I have a regar
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