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‘But, after all, I wasn’t sorry. Maria and I had a good
laugh, and then we talked it over, and we made out that I
didn’t owe Sainte Eloise anything. Clearly it wasn’t she who
had answered the prayer, and there was no need to buy her
a candle. So I had my packet of cigarettes after all.’
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