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Ah, what a pity that we are not married!" And he, feeling a whole garden of bourgeois virtues, hitherto ignored, bursting into bloom, repeated in a tone of conviction: "That's so; why are we not married!" Their wishes could be realized.

The husband was facilitating the step by his unexpected intervention.

So young Desnoyers set forth for South America in order to raise the money and marry Marguerite..