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Bureaucracy

CHAPTER VII
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"She does not even understand that she is the sole incentive of my whole work.

How wrong-headed, and yet how excellent a mind!--If I had not married I might now have been high in office and rich.

I could have saved half my salary; my savings well-invested would have given me to-day ten thousand francs a year outside of my office, and I might then have become, through a good marriage--Yes, that is all true," he exclaimed, interrupting himself, "but I have Celestine and my two children." The man flung himself back on his happiness.

To the best of married lives there come moments of regret.

He entered the salon and looked around him.


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