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What I think is that you have neither respect nor affection for me,shouted M.
Theywere followed by several wealthy Liberals.
This letter to an intimate
friend which had set the whole of Verrieresmarvelling at the time, M. Instead
of worrying about a very present trouble,what intelligence, she thought to
herself.
For my mind is becoming unhinged, I can feel it!
Indifferent or not, I
am bound to save you from a peril into which Ihave plunged you. A listenerwould
have found in it at once respect for M.
You speak like the fool that you are,
cried M.
He, without opening it,gazed at his wife with madness in his eyes.
I
should think not, indeed, replied the Governor triumphantly.
Would it not be
better to stick to my suspicions and to verifynothing?
How can one expect
common sense of a woman? The battle was now won; she had her work cut out to
prevent M. Thisidea appealed to him: he worked it out in the fullest
detail.
Madame de Renal turned pale; she felt herself incapable ofdenying
anything.
Julien welcomedthem all, including the rabbit.
His activity had
multiplied since the alarms which M.
On the contrary, this language amusedthem
by its unfamiliarity; they laughed at it.
Thereis a streak of middle-class
pettiness in my nature; my vanity is hurt,because M.
A man of family, who
respects his rank as I do, isalways hated by plebeians.
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