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Therese Raquin

CHAPTER X
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She was more motionless, more impenetrable, more peaceful than ever.

She did not seem to trouble herself in the least about Laurent.

She barely looked at him, rarely exchanged a word with him, treating him with perfect indifference.

Madame Raquin, who in her goodness of heart, felt pained at this attitude, sometimes said to the young man: "Do not pay attention to the manner of my niece, I know her; her face appears cold, but her heart is warm with tenderness and devotedness." The two sweethearts had no more meetings.

Since the evening in the Rue Saint-Victor they had not met alone.


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