A Parisian Romance — page 237: what you’re looking at

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228 ) A PARISIAN ROMANCE. whom {have so sorely wronged, and yet so deeply ‘loved, will be forever delivered from poor “ MARCELLE.” As the doctor read these words, Madame de Tar- gy’s expression, instead of softening, grew harder, sterner, and colder. When he had finished, she ex- claimed, almost savagely: “Tf she carried out her threat, she would do well, but she will not do it!” “Can you afford to run the risk?” asked the doc- tor, quietly. But Madame de Targy would not listen. All she could think of was what her son had suffered already, and what this unexpected resurrection would make him suffer in the future. “She will not kill herself,” she reiterated, dog- gedly. “You need give yourself no uneasiness on that account. As for receiving her, and imposing upon my son the shame and agony of her presence— Never! Never! Never!” “Your son, perhaps, may not agree with you.” “My son,” exclaimed Madame de Targy, vehe- mently. “Do you think that I propose to tell him of this? How can you imagine such a thing? Poor boy! he has suffered too much already! and by my fault! Once, already, I had the weakness and cowardice to tell hima secret, which was killing me, to be sure, but I had better have died than have ruined him by the disclosure. But this time, I keep Eomicbooks:Go