...enemy to any thing like deception," he continued, " a thousand times the secret hovered on my lips—a thousand times was I on the point of throwing myself at your feet, and avowing the imposition I had practised on you; but as often was withheld, by a dread of the consequences...

...under a thousand pretexts, on the road ; he did this to send me word where you were going. A hundred times was I on the point of throwing myself at your feet at Saint-Cloud ; but, by doing so, I should have lost everything." The physician of Saint-Heraye arrived...