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But the banker 's smile became more and more sarcastic ; and Godefroid , more and more embarrassed , was ashamed of the step he had taken , and which bore no fruit , for he dared not continue his questions about Madame de la Chanterie and her inmates . IV . FAREWELL TO THE LIFE OF THE WORLD at the Cafe Anglais , and seen the two first pieces at the Varietes , he went , at ten o'clock , to sleep for the first time in the rue Chanoinesse , where Manon conducted him to his room . Solitude has charms comparable only to those of savage life , which no European has ever really abandoned after once tasting them . This may seem strange at an epoch when every one lives so much to be seen of others that all the world concern themselves in their neighbors ' affairs , and when private life will soon be a thing of the past , so bold and so intrusive are the eyes of the press , -- that modern Argus . Nevertheless , it is a truth which rests on the authority of the first six Christian centuries , during which no recluse ever returned to social life .