She is alone, a teacher of music. She has seen
proprietors come and go. The _pension_ has changed mistresses many times.
Students of law and of medicine have come and passed like the shadows of
a magic lantern; but this poor soul has remained still in her little room
on the fourth, and has kept always her little old piano.
It was here she knew Susan Meynell, and a young Frenchman who became in
love with her, for she was beautiful like the angels, this lady said to
me.
Until we meet for all details. Enough that I come to discover where the
marriage took place, that I come to obtain a copy of the register, and
that I do all things in rule. Enough that the marriage is a good
marriage--a regular marriage, and that I have placed myself already in
communication with the heir of that marriage, who resides within some few
leagues of this city.
My labours, my successes I will not describe. It must that they will be
recompensed in the future. I have dispensed much money during these
transactions.
Agree, monsieur, that I am your devoted servitor,
JACQUES ROUSSEAU FLEURUS.
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It was in consequence of the receipt of this missive that the Captain
trusted himself to the winds and waves in the cheerless December weather.
He was well pleased to find that M. Fleurus had made discoveries so
important; but he had no idea of letting that astute practitioner absorb
all the power into his own hands.
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