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Cosmopolis

CHAPTER V
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I repeat that I loved you a great deal, Boleslas.

I did not hide it from you formerly.

I was as loyal to you as truth itself.

I have the consciousness of being so still, in offering you, as I do, a firm friendship, the friendship of man for man, who only asks to prove to you the sincerity of his devotion." "I, a friendship with you, I--I--I ?" exclaimed Boleslas.

"Have I had enough patience in listening to you as I have listened?
I heard you lie to me and scented the lie in the same breath.


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