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When Mr Pontellier learned of his wife's intention to abandon her home

and take up her residence elsewhere, he immediately wrote her a letter

of unqualified disapproval and re to acknowledge as adequate He hoped she had not acted

upon her rash ied her to consider first, foremost,

and above all else, what people would say He was not drea; that was a thing which would never

have entered into his mind to consider in connection with his wife's

narity It

et noised about that the Pontelliers had e on a huht do incalculableEdna's whi

that she had irasped the situation with his usual promptness and handled it with his

well-known business tact and cleverness

The saht to Edna his letter of disapproval carried

instructions--the mostthe re

conte his temporary

absence

Expert and reliable packers and ed to convey the

furniture, carpets, pictures--everything movable, in short--to places

of security And in an incredibly short time the Pontellier house