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THE HUSBAND'S TRIUMPH.
During the preceding night Madame du Tillet had gone over in her mind her sister's revelations.

Sure, now, of Nathan's safety, she was no longer influenced by the thought of an imminent danger in that direction.

But she remembered the vehement energy with which the countess had declared that she would fly with Nathan if that would save him.

She saw that the man might determine her sister in some paroxysm of gratitude and love to take a step which was nothing short of madness.
There were recent examples in the highest society of just such flights which paid for doubtful pleasures by lasting remorse and the disrepute of a false position.