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A Daughter of Eve

CHAPTER II
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Instead of giving orders, I receive them.

At a ball, at the theatre, a servant comes to me and says: 'Madame's carriage is ready,' and I am obliged to go, in the midst, perhaps, of something I enjoy.

Ferdinand would be furious if I did not obey the etiquette he prescribes for his wife; he frightens me.

In the midst of this hateful opulence, I find myself regretting the past, and thinking that our mother was kind; she left us the nights when we could talk together; at any rate, I was living with a dear being who loved me and suffered with me; whereas here, in this sumptuous house, I live in a desert." At this terrible confession the countess caught her sister's hand and kissed it, weeping.
"How, then, can I help you," said Eugenie, in a low voice.

"He would be suspicious at once if he surprised us here, and would insist on knowing all that you have been saying to me.


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