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I Will Repay

PROLOGUE
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He would listen to no one.

He saw no one save the man who had insulted Adele, and who was heaping further insults upon her, by refusing this public acknowledgment of her virtues.
De Marny hated Deroulede at this moment with the most deadly hatred the heart of man can conceive.

The older man's calm, his chivalry, his consideration only enhanced the boy's anger and shame.
The hubbub had become general.

Everyone seemed carried away with this strange fever of enmity, which was seething in the Vicomte's veins.

Most of the young men crowded round De Marny, doing their best to pacify him.
The Marquis de Villefranche declared that the matter was getting quite outside the rules.
No one took much notice of Deroulede.


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