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1 24 MEMOIES OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON.

guarded night and day by five or six nuns. She entered the
church by one door, Prince de Le*on by another; not a compli-
ment or a word passed between them; the curate said mass;
married them; they mounted a coach, and drove off to the
house of a friend some leagues from Paris. They paid for their
folly by a cruel indigence which lasted all their lives, neither
of them having survived the Due de Kohan, Monsieur de Roque-
laure, or Madame de Roquelaure. They left several children.