[The Widow Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau]@TWC D-Link bookThe Widow Lerouge CHAPTER IX 8/56
Albert had had only serious suspicions, and he had changed them to certainty.
What stupidity! "There can be no possible doubt," he said to himself; "Valerie has destroyed the most conclusive letters, those which appeared to her the most dangerous, those I wrote after the substitution.
But why has she preserved these others, compromising enough in themselves? and why, after having preserved them, has she let them go out of her possession ?" Without moving, Albert awaited a word from the count.
What would it be? No doubt, the old nobleman was at that moment deciding what he should do. "Perhaps she is dead!" said M.de Commarin aloud. And at the thought that Valerie was dead, without his having again seen her, he started painfully.
His heart, after more than twenty years of voluntary separation, still suffered, so deeply rooted was this first love of his youth.
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