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Her hands thrust him from her, her bosom heaved, a spot of color flared in her cheeks. "Proof!" she cried.
"What do you suppose, then, that these wolves have plotted for? What else do you suppose could be Austria's share of the feast? Couldn't you hear our fate in the thunder of their voices when that miserable monarch rode back to his captivity? We are doomed--betrayed! You remember the Massacre of St.Bartholomew, a blood-stained page of history for all time.
The world would tell you that we have outlived the age of such barbarous doings.
It is not true.
My friend David, it is not true.
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