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Saint Bartholomew’s Eve

CHAPTER 4: An Experiment
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"I am the wife now of a trader, though one honoured in his class; but have still a little of your feelings, Emilie, and remember that the blood of the De Moulins runs in Philip's veins, and hope that he will do credit to it.

I don't think that Lucie has any such feelings.

She is wrapt up in duty--first her duty to God, secondly her duty to her crippled husband, whom she adores; and I think she regarded the desire of Philip to come out to fight in the Huguenot ranks as a call that she ought not to oppose.

I know she was heartbroken at parting with him, and yet she never showed it.
"Lucie is a noble character.

Everyone who knows her loves her.


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