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The Powers and Maxine

CHAPTER VI
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Count Godensky is one of those, and he's dangerous, too.
I'm afraid of him, since I've cared for Raoul, though I used to be afraid of no one, when I'd only myself to think of.

Raoul was going away that very night.

He had an errand to do for a woman who was a dear and intimate friend of his dead mother.

You must know of the Duchesse de Montpellier?
Well, it was for her: and Raoul is like her son.

She has no children of her own." "I don't know her," I said, "but I've seen her; a charming looking woman, about forty-five, with a gloomy-faced husband--a fellow who might be rather a Tartar to live with.


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