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"If this continues I shall lose my mind," murmured Durtal as he sat in front of his table reperusing the letters which he had been receiving from that woman for the last week. She was an indefatigable letter-writer, and since she had begun her advances he had not had time to answer one letter before another arrived.
"My! " he said, "let's try and see just where we do stand. After that ungracious answer to her first note she immediately sends me this: