[The Three Cities Trilogy by Emile Zola]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Cities Trilogy BOOK I 180/225
She will surely come to fetch you, will she not ?" "Fetch us? Oh no! since I tell you that she has other important affairs to attend to.
The carriage will take us home alone, my brother and I." Increasing bitterness was infecting the girl's pain-fraught irony.
Did he not understand her then, that priest who asked such naive questions which were like dagger-thrusts in her heart? Yet he must know, since everybody knew the truth. "Ah! how worried I am," Pierre resumed, so grieved indeed that tears almost came to his eyes.
"It's still on account of that poor man about whom I have been busying myself since this morning.
I have a line from your father, and Monsieur Gerard told me--" But at this point he paused in confusion, and amidst all his thoughtlessness of the world, absorbed as he was in the one passion of charity, he suddenly divined the truth. "Yes," he added mechanically, "I just now saw your father again with Monsieur de Quinsac." "I know, I know," replied Camille, with the suffering yet scoffing air of a girl who is ignorant of nothing.
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