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She stepped quickly across the room to Lucien , and slipped two thousand-franc notes into his hand as she grasped it . `` It is too late , '' he said , looking up at her with dull , hopeless eyes . The three stayed with Lucien , trying to soothe his despair with comforting words ; but every spring seemed to be broken . At noon all the brotherhood , with the exception of Michel Chrestien -LRB- who , however , had learned the truth as to Lucien 's treachery -RRB- , was assembled in the poor little church of the Bonne-Nouvelle ; Mlle. de Touches was present , and Berenice and Coralie 's dresser from the theatre , with a couple of supernumeraries and the disconsolate Camusot . All the men accompanied the actress to her last resting-place in Pere Lachaise . Camusot , shedding hot tears , had solemnly promised Lucien to buy the grave in perpetuity , and to put a headstone above it with the words : August , 1822 Lucien stayed there , on the sloping ground that looks out over Paris , until the sun had set .