[Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant]@TWC D-Link bookPierre and Jean CHAPTER VII 29/30
Come, take courage.
I will arrange everything, I promise you, to-morrow; I will be with you by nine o'clock.
Come, put on your bonnet.
I will take you home." "I will do just what you desire," she said with a childlike impulse of timidity and gratitude. She tried to rise, but the shock had been too much for her; she could not stand. He made her drink some sugared water and smell at some salts, while he bathed her temples with vinegar.
She let him do what he would, exhausted, but comforted, as after the pains of child-birth.
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