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White Lies

CHAPTER XIII
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"I have forfeited all right to be by your side." "My poor, lost love," sighed Josephine, "will you never understand me?
You never stood higher in my esteem than at this moment.

It is the avowal you have forced from ME that parts us.

The man to whom I have said 'I'-- must not remain beneath my husband's roof.

Does not your sense of honor agree with mine ?" "It does," faltered he.
"To-morrow you must leave the chateau." "I will obey you." "What, you do not resist, you do not break my heart by complaints, by reproaches ?" "No, Josephine, all is changed.

I thought you unfeeling: I thought you were going to be HAPPY with him; that was what maddened me." "I pray daily YOU may be happy, no matter how.


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