[Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget]@TWC D-Link bookCosmopolis CHAPTER VII 32/60
No, the duel should not take place! But how to prevent it? How-how? she repeated.
Florent was not at home.
She could, therefore, not implore him.
If he should return, would there still be time? Lincoln was not at home.
Where was he? Perhaps at a rendezvous with Madame Steno. The image of that handsome idol of love clasped in the painter's arms, plunged in the abyss of intoxication which her ardent letters described, was presented to the mind of the jealous wife.
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