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`` Well , I will add three crowns a day to your pay while you are there , and I will give the shop to your eldest daughter . Bring me such letters often , and you shall be welcome . '' Tapin returned to the hotel , but waited for the morning to deliver the letter . At six o'clock , hearing Gaston moving , he entered , and gave him the note . This was what it contained : `` MY FRIEND -- I think of your advice , and that perhaps you were right at last , I fear . A carriage has just arrived -- Madame Desroches orders departure -- I tried to resist -- they shut me up in my room ; fortunately , a peasant passed by to water his horse ; I have given him two louis , and he promised to take you this note . I hear the last preparations -- in two hours we leave for Paris .