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L’Abbe Constantin

CHAPTER IX
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She would introduce you to her brother-in-law, who has come back.

There is no one else in the house at this moment, not a single visitor.

She insisted strongly on this point, and I remember her last words--she was there, on the threshold of the door: "'There will be only five of us,' she said, 'you and Monsieur Jean, my sister, my brother-in-law, and myself.' "And then she added, laughing, 'Quite a family party.' "With these words she went, she almost ran away.

Quite a family party! Do you know what I think, Jean?
Do you know ?" "You must not think that, you must not." "Jean, I believe that she loves you." "And I believe it, too." "You, too!" "When I left her, three weeks ago, she was so agitated, so moved! She saw me sad and unhappy, she would not let me go.

It was at the door of the castle.


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