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What followed that fatal night you knoell as I; but what you can

not knohat you can not suspect, is what I have suffered since our

separation

I heard that your father had taken you aith him, but I felt sure

that you could not live away fro, and when I met you in the

Champs-Elysees, I was a little upset, but by no an that series of days; each of theht me a fresh insult

from you I received the

to me that you still loved me, it seemed to me as if the more you

persecuted me the more I should be raised in your eyes when you came to

know the truth

Do not wonder at my joy in martyrdom, Armand; your love for me had

openedas that quite at once

Between the time of the sacrificewhile elapsed, during which I was obliged to have recourse

to physical o mad, and in order to be blinded and

deafened in the whirl of life into which I flung myself Prudence

has told you (has she not?) hoent to all the fetes and balls and

orgies I had a sort of hope that I should kill myself by all these

excesses, and I think it will not be long before this hope is realized