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The Hated Son

CHAPTER IV
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What think you ?" "His life on the seashore has been so chaste and so pure that nature is sounder in him than it would have been had he lived in your world.

But so delicate a body is the very humble servant of the soul.

Monseigneur Etienne must himself choose his wife; all things in him must be the work of nature and not of your will.

He will love artlessly, and will accomplish by his heart's desire that which you wish him to do for the sake of your name.

But if you give your son a proud, ungainly woman of the world, a great lady, he will flee to his rocks.


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