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Therese Raquin

CHAPTER XXII
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Both felt disgusted.

Therese shuddered with horror, and Laurent who heard her teeth chattering, railed at her: "Why are you trembling ?" he exclaimed.

"Are you afraid of Camille?
Ah! the poor man is as dead as a doornail at this moment." Both avoided saying what made them shudder.

When an hallucination brought the countenance of the drowned man before Therese, she closed her eyes, keeping her terror to herself, not daring to speak to her husband of her vision, lest she should bring on a still more terrible crisis.

And it was just the same with Laurent.


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