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fils Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)

CHAPTER 13
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What equal sacrifice could you make for her, on your part, and when you had got tired of her, what could you do to make up for what you had taken from her?
Nothing.

You would have cut her off from the world in which her fortune and her future were to be found; she would have given you her best years, and she would be forgotten.

Either you would be an ordinary man, and, casting her past in her teeth, you would leave her, telling her that you were only doing like her other lovers, and you would abandon her to certain misery; or you would be an honest man, and, feeling bound to keep her by you, you would bring inevitable trouble upon yourself, for a liaison which is excusable in a young man, is no longer excusable in a man of middle age.

It becomes an obstacle to every thing; it allows neither family nor ambition, man's second and last loves.

Believe me, then, my friend, take things for what they are worth, and do not give a kept woman the right to call herself your creditor, no matter in what." It was well argued, with a logic of which I should have thought Prudence incapable.


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