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La-bas

CHAPTER VIII
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It ought to be easy to find out about a cardinal who renounced the purple to go live in a hut.Wait.I think Saint Peter Damian did, but I am not sure.

I have such a poor memory.

Help me think." "But I don't know who he is!" She came closer to him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Are you angry at me ?" "I should say I am! When I desire you frantically, when I've been dreaming for a whole week about this meeting, you come here and tell me that all is over between us, that you do not love me--" She became demure.

"But if I did not love you, would I have come to you?
Understand, then, that reality kills a dream; that it is better for us not to expose ourselves to fearful regrets.

We are not children, you see.


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