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St. Martin’s Summer

CHAPTER XXIII
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Bid your men depart, as I have told you, and you also shall have liberty to go hence." "Aye, but whither ?" she cried, in a sudden frenzy of anger.
"I realize, madame, from what I know of your circumstances that you will be well-nigh homeless.

You should have thought of how one day you might come to be dependent upon the Marquis de Condillac's generosity before you set yourself to conspire against him, before you sought to encompass his death.

You can hardly look for generosity at his hands now, and so you will be all but homeless, unless--" He paused, and his eyes strayed to Tressan and were laden with a sardonic look.
"You take a very daring tone with me," she told him.

"You speak to me as no man has ever dared to speak." "When the power was yours, madame, you dealt with me as none has ever dared to deal.

The advantage now is mine.


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