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The Widow Lerouge

CHAPTER IV
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Will it not be another proof of your love for me?
Besides, he will have nothing to complain of.

Knowing nothing he will have nothing to regret; and all that money can secure in this world he shall have.
"'Do not tell me that this attempt is criminal.

No, my well beloved, no.
The success of our plan depends upon so many unlikely circumstances, so many coincidences, independent of our will, that, without the evident protection of Providence, we cannot succeed.

If, then, success crowns our efforts, it will be because heaven decreed it.
"'Meanwhile I hope.'" "Just what I expected," murmured old Tabaret.
"And the wretched man," cried Noel, "dares to invoke the aid of Providence! He would make heaven his accomplice!" "But," asked the old fellow, "how did your mother,--pardon me, I would say, how did Madame Gerdy receive this proposition ?" "She would appear to have rejected it, at first, for here are twenty pages of eloquent persuasion from the count, urging her to agree to it, trying to convince her.

Oh, that woman!" "Come my child," said M.Tabaret, softly, "try not to be too unjust.


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