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White Lies

CHAPTER XII
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She only said, "My poor mother!" That word did not fall to the ground.

It flashed like lightning at night across the demented lover, and lighted up his egotism (suicide, like homicide, is generally a fit of maniacal egotism), even to his eyes blinded by fury.
"Wretch that I am," he shrieked.

"Fly, Josephine, fly! escape this moment, that my better angel whispers to me.

Do you hear?
begone, while it is time." "I will not leave you, Camille." "I say you shall.

Go to your mother and Rose; go to those you love, and I can pity; go to the chapel and thank Heaven for your escape." "Yes, but not without you, Camille.


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