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The Trampling of the Lilies

CHAPTER XX
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I had enough of him a month ago, when he brought me to Paris.

It offended me to have him stand here again in the same room with me, and insolently refer to his pledged word as though he were a gentleman born." "To whom do you refer ?" quoth she.
"Ma foi! How many of them are there?
Why, to this fellow, La Boulaye ?" "So it seemed, and yet I could not believe it of you.

Do you not realise that your ingratitude approaches the base ?" He vouchsafed her a long, cold stare of amazement.
"Mordieu!" he ejaculated at last.

"I am afraid that your reason has been affected by your troubles.

You seem, Mademoiselle, to be unmindful of the station into which you have had the honour to be born." "If your bearing is to be accepted as a sign that you remember it, I will pray God that I may, indeed, forget it--completely and for all time." And then the door opened to admit the good Henriette, who came to announce that she had contrived a hasty meal, and that it was served and awaiting them.
"Diable!" he laughed.


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