SONGS OF LA MOUCHE
hotel, he was surprised by a visit from "Margot," who, hearing he had returned, obtained his address from a bookseller. This meeting was the forerunner of a number of excursions in and around Paris. But "Margot" his friend still remained, and she forbade him to enquire who she was and whence she came. This friendship was ended in May by Meissner's journey to England.
In July of the same year when walking down Regent Street, he saw two ladies alight from a carriage in front of a jeweller's shop. In spite of her changed surroundings, he fancied the younger must be "Margot," and rushing forward through the crowd impetuously greeted her by her pet name—the only name he knew. She "regretted that Monsieur had made a mistake as she had not the pleasure of knowing him."
Then followed "Camille Selden's" unhappy marriage to a Frenchman who ran through her money, and shut her up in a lunatic asylum. She was, however, speedily released, and shortly afterwards obtained a separation from her husband.
In 1855 she was living in Paris with her mother, supporting herself by teaching. Heine had always been one of her heroes, and a chance commission gave her the
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