[My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell]@TWC D-Link bookMy Lady Ludlow CHAPTER V 17/27
And you, Clement, would leave me for this Virginie,--this degenerate De Crequy, tainted with the atheism of the Encyclopedistes! She is only reaping some of the fruit of the harvest whereof her friends have sown the seed.
Let her alone! Doubtless she has friends--it may be lovers--among these demons, who, under the cry of liberty, commit every licence.
Let her alone, Clement! She refused you with scorn: be too proud to notice her now.' "'Mother, I cannot think of myself; only of her.' "'Think of me, then! I, your mother, forbid you to go.' "Clement bowed low, and went out of the room instantly, as one blinded. She saw his groping movement, and, for an instant, I think her heart was touched.
But she turned to me, and tried to exculpate her past violence by dilating upon her wrongs, and they certainly were many.
The Count, her husband's younger brother, had invariably tried to make mischief between husband and wife.
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