[Carnac’s Folly Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookCarnac’s Folly Complete CHAPTER XXIV 18/23
Do you think he wouldn't loathe you, if you do this ghastly thing? Would any real man endure it for an hour? What do you expect to get but ugly revenge on a man who never gave anything except friendship ?" "Friendship--friendship-yes, he gave that, but emotion too." "You think that real men marry women for whom they only have emotion. You think that he--Carnac Grier--would marry any woman on that basis? Come, ma'm'selle, the truth! He didn't know he was being married, and when you told him it was a real marriage he left you at once.
You and yours tricked him--the man you'd never have known if he hadn't saved your life.
You thought that with your beauty--yes, you are beautiful--you'd conquer him, and that he'd give in, and become a real husband in a real home.
Come now, isn't that it ?" The other did not reply.
Her face was alive with memories.
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