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The Refugees

CHAPTER X
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I have given up all for your sake--husband, honour, everything.

Oh, will you not give your anger up for mine?
My God, he weeps! Oh, I am saved, I am saved!" "No, no, madame," cried the king, dashing his hand across his eyes.
"You see the weakness of the man, but you shall also see the firmness of the king.

As to your insults to-day, I forgive them freely, if that will make you more happy in your retirement.

But I owe a duty to my subjects also, and that duty is to set them an example.

We have thought too little of such things.


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