[The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre (fils) Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Son of Clemenceau CHAPTER X 14/24
At the first, they talked of nothing less than trying me for treason, since the projected arrest of the Polish conspirator and yourself--kinswoman of the Dobronowska inscribed in the black book of the Russian and Polish police--was foiled on my territory. The major affirmed that he had seen me not only looking on at the defeat of his posse, but holding my farmers in check not to hasten to their assistance.
He alleged that I had lent racehorses to you and your accomplice, for your continued flight.
This Polander--" "You can say Frenchman, now," returned Madame Clemenceau; "he is one, and my cousin.
The story is long and involved and will keep to another day.
It is he I married." "Your husband!" he exclaimed, and she nodded apologetically. "Then," sighed he, "my dream ends here--on that day when we last met." "A learned man has said, in a lecture here, that dreams can be repeated and continued, by an effort of the will.
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