dois dire, madame, que c'est devant vous que j'ai eu pour la première fois conscience de mon indignité. Avant, mon Dieu, avant, accoutumé à voir de près les saletés de ce monde, je me disais que, somme toute, je valais bien ce que vaut la très grande majorité de mes contemporains. » Madame, j'ai été conquis, dès l'abord, par votre bonne grâce, votre sincérité, ce je ne sais quoi de pur, de joli et de jeune qui rayonne en vous, par votre courage aussi et par vos malheurs. Je décidai tout de suite que vous n'auriez rien à redouter de moi ; si j'ai joué aussi longtemps près de vous le rôle que vous savez maintenant, c'était pour vous servir. Vous auriez pu avoir ce que vous n'avez point : un attachement. En ce cas, et faisant bon marché de mes obligations professionnelles, j'aurais écarté de vous tout danger. « Vous méritez d'être aimée, et par un être digne de vous. Mais permettez-moi de vous dire, en vous priant d'agréer une dernière fois l'hommage de mon profond respect, que jamais, jamais, l'homme que je suis n'oubliera les heures qu'il a passées auprès de la femme que vous êtes. » Mme Delanney resta un moment pensive. Puis elle déchira la lettre en petits, tout petits morceaux. Elle avait le cœur empli, elle aussi, de cette tristesse et de cette amertume dont parlait son singulier correspondant, et elle se prit à dire, à mi-voix : — Pauvre garçon. Oui. C'est dommage. JACQUES CESANNE. 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Pauvre Alban, si tu me voyais en ce moment, devant la maison vide de celle qui t'abandonne, tu croirais certainement que je triomphe, que je goûte ma vengeance contre toi, contre la destinée qui ne veut pas que je sois ton épouse. Tu te tromperais, va! En ce moment, il me semble remâcher toute l'amertume de l'existence, de la mienne, de la tienne. Je n'ai peut-être jamais été aussi triste qu'aujourd'hui. La semaine suivante, Alban décidait le départ. Monique avait hâte de quitter le pays où elle venait d'être blessée. Ils partirent,