It was twenty years ago and I was living in Paris. I had a tiny
apartment in the Latin Quarter overlook a cemetery, and I was 【1】______
earning barely little money to keep body and soul together. She had【2】______
read a book of mine and had written me about it. I answered, 【3】______
thanked her, and presently I received from her another letter saying
that she is passing through Paris and would like to have a chat with【4】______
me; and her time was limited, and the only free moment she had
was at the following Thursday; she was spending the morning at the【5】______
Luxembourg and should I give her a little luncheon at Foyot's 【6】______
afterwards？ Foyot's is a restaurant at which the French senators
eat, and it was far beyond my means that I had never even thought 【7】______
of going there. But I was flattered and I was very young to have 【8】______
learned to say no to a woman Few men, I may add, learn this until
they are too old to make it of any consequence to a woman what they
say. I had eighty francs (gold francs) to last for me the rest 【9】______
of month, and a modest luncheon should not cost more than fifteen.【10】______
If I cut out coffee for the next two weeks I could manage well enough.
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