A Parisian Romance — page 144: what you’re looking at

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A PARIS[AN ROMANCE © 135 do not need it. Why should we ruin those honest people? Why——” | “My dear,” interrupted Chevrial, suavely, “one always needs three millions.” “Baron,” she entreated, “listen to me for just one moment! You know that since our marriage, I have not been very happy. Ihave more than one wrong, more than one cruel wrong to reproach you with! Well, I forget all from this moment, if only you will yield to me in this one thing.” Totally unmoved by the distress of the woman whom he had sworn before the altar to honor and protect, the baron calmly proceeded to light a cigarette, and then said with a coldness which had a touch of malignity in it: “At least, give me your reasons for not accepting what belongs to you.” “My reasons!” exclaimed Armande, in a voice quivering with agonized emotion. “Do you know what you are making me suffer? No! you cannot know it! If you had the slightest suspicion of it, your conduct would be unpardonable. My reasons? My God! MustI tell them to vou? Do you think, then, that a woman who goes into society, as I do, who has her friends, her enemies, never hears any- thing of the past? that she does not finally know all that they say in Paris, all that they say both aloud and in whispers of her family, of her father, of her mother, of her mother, especially?” And the poor woman, unable longer to bear the GomichbooksGo