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The American

CHAPTER XVII
18/60

If it is not, I will do it after my marriage." "You talk like a treatise on logic, and English logic into the bargain!" exclaimed Madame de Bellegarde.

"Promise, then, after you are married.
After all, I shall enjoy keeping you to it." "Well, then, after I am married," said Newman serenely.
The little marquise hesitated a moment, looking at him, and he wondered what was coming.

"I suppose you know what my life is," she presently said.

"I have no pleasure, I see nothing, I do nothing.

I live in Paris as I might live at Poitiers.


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