[The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre (fils) Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Son of Clemenceau CHAPTER X 24/24
Speak, Cesarine, are you with me? After a while, when the modern Attila has swept over France, perhaps we will like to come and view the ruins and fill our gallery with the art-treasures which the impoverished defeated ones will gladly sell." "A large sum!" repeated the woman, frowning as her thoughts concentrated. "Enormous! I have been changing it into sight-drafts, and we can put on our wings at a moment's notice." "It belongs to a political organization, you say ?" "Have no qualms--it is a few drops out of a reptilian fund! No one can claim what was handed over to me without witnesses, and no receipt demanded.
I make no secret: I am offering for your love the price of my honor.
Only let us flee to a distance for a while.
The money could not be claimed of me in a public court, but they might punish me with an assassin's bullet." "And for me, for my happiness, you would do this? I cannot doubt you any longer, if ever I did.
Enough, Gratian, I will go to the world's end with you!".
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