little late:

"I give way, sir."

Nothing more being offered, the book was assigned to me.

As I was afraid of some new fit of obstinacy, which my amour
propre might have sustained somewhat better than my purse, I
wrote down my name, had the book put on one side, and went out. I
must have given considerable food for reflection to the witnesses
of this scene, who would nodoubt ask themselves what my purpose
could have been in paying a hundred francs for a book which I
could have had anywhere for ten, or, at the outside, fifteen.

An hour after, I sent for my purchase. On the first page was
written in ink, in an elegant hand, an inscription on the part of
the giver. It consisted of these words:

Manon to Marguerite.

Humility.

It was signed Armand Duval.

What was the meaning of the word Humility? Was Manon to recognise
in Marguerite, in the opinion of M. Armand Duval, her superior in
vice or in affection? The second interpretation seemed the more
probable, for the first would have been an impertinent piece of
plain speaking which Marguerite, whatever her opinion of herself,
would never have accepted.