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The Widow Lerouge

CHAPTER X
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She at once uttered a loud cry, fell back in her chair, and thence slipped to the floor, murmuring, 'Oh, the unhappy man, the unhappy man!'" "The unhappy woman, you mean." "No, sir.

She uttered the words I have just repeated.

Evidently the exclamation did not refer to my poor nurse." Upon this reply, so important and yet made in the most unconscious tone, M.Daburon raised his eyes to the witness.

The advocate lowered his head.
"And then ?" asked the magistrate, after a moment's silence, during which he had taken a few notes.
"Those words, sir, were the last spoken by Madame Gerdy.

Assisted by our servant, I carried her to her bed.


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