[The Red Lily by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Lily CHAPTER V 3/33
It's extraordinary how his ideas have become healthy and just.
Oh, he has improved a great deal." She could not refrain from smiling. "But Gavaut, my friend, is a poor devil who never thought of anything except escaping from the crowd of those who are dying of hunger. Gavaut never had any ideas except at his elbows.
Does anybody take him seriously in the political world? You may be sure that he never gave an illusion to any woman, not even his wife.
And yet to produce that sort of illusion a man does not need much." She added, brusquely: "You know Miss Bell has invited me to spend a month with her at Fiesole. I have accepted; I am going." Less astonished than discontented, he asked her with whom she was going. At once she answered: "With Madame Marmet." There was no objection to make.
Madame Marmet was a proper companion, and it was appropriate for her to visit Italy, where her husband had made some excavations.
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