36/63 And she walked before him in order to reach the door, fixing upon him eyes so haughty that he involuntarily lowered his. "You have no longer a wife and I have no longer a husband.... I am no Madame Maitland; I do not avenge myself by means of anonymous letters nor by denunciation.... Never, do you hear, never!" With those words she left the room, with those words into which she put all the indomitable energy of her character.... |