Volume VI Part 52 (2/2)
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It was dark in the little suite of rooe Du Roy and Clotilde de Marelle, having one in at once, and she had said to hi hi to marry Susan Walter?”
He admitted it quietly, and added: ”Did not you know it?”
She exclainant:
”You are going to
For threein order to hide that from me
Everyone knew it but an to laugh, though so placed his hat on a corner of the mantel-shelf, sat down in an arht in the face, and said, in a low and irritated tone: ”Ever since you left your wife you have been preparing this move, and you only kept me on as a mistress to fill up the interim nicely
What a rascal you are!”
He asked: ”Why so? I had a ho deceivedto marry another What could be si and dangerous you are”
He began to sain ”By Jove! Simpletons and fools are always someone's dupes”
But she continued to follow out her idea: ”I ought to have divined your nature fro But no, I could not believe that you could be such a blackguard as that”
He assu of you to pay attention to the words you are nation revolted her ”What? You want loves to talk to you now You have behaved towards abond ever since I have known you, and you want to make out that I am not to tell you so
You deceive everyone; you take advantage of everyone; you filch money and enjoyment wherever you can, and you want me to treat you as an honestlip, said: ”Be quiet, or I will turn you out of here”
She stammered: ”Turn me out of here; turn me out of here! You will turn me out of here--you--you?” She could not speak for a h the door of her wrath had been
burst open, she broke out with: ”Turn et, then, that it is I who have paid for these roo Ah, yes, you have certainly taken them on from time to time But who first took them? I did Who kept them on? I did And you want to turnfellow Do you think I don't know you robbed Madeleine of half Vaudrec's money? Do you think I don't kno you slept with Susan to oblige her toher with both hands, exclaimed: ”Don't speak of her, at any rate I won't have it”
She screamed out: ”You slept with her; I know you did”
He would have accepted no matter what, but this falsehood exasperated him The truths she had told hih hi to be his wife, awakened in the pal to strike her
He repeated: ”Be quiet--have a care--be quiet,” and shook her as we shake a branch todown, her low: ”You slept with her!”
He let her go, and gave her such a smack on the face that she fell down beside the wall But she turned towards hi herself on her hands, once more shouted: ”You slept with her!”