No more did I; and, if I had been told what I have just told you, that which has happened would not have happened.

However, it is all the same.

Excuse me (he continued): the truth is that it is frightful, frightful, frightful, this abyss of errors and debaucheries in which we live face to face with the real question of the rights of woman.".

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"What do you mean by the 'real' question of the rights of woman ?" "The question of the nature of this special being, organized otherwise than man, and how this being and man ought to view the wife.