[The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre (fils) Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Son of Clemenceau CHAPTER XVII 5/21
It is frequent, very--and ninety-nine times in the hundred, we run up against the woman for whom a great magistrate advised the search whenever a crime is perpetrated." "It would appear that you expect to induce me to commit that crime!" sneered the woman, pale but rebellious. "We have no need to induce you, dear madame, for we can constrain you." "Constrain me!" repeated the woman savagely and tossing her head with pride.
"If you really knew my nature, you would not say that.
You might tell me how ?" "Really know you? you shall judge for yourself.
In your marriage certificate, you are described as of the Vieradlers, but your eagle is not the German one--it is the Polish.
The women of your race are distinguished for beauty, when young, and freedom in love at all times. Your grandma has a volumnious chronicle of scandal all to herself, but her glory is thrown into the shade by the peculiar celebrity enjoyed rather briefly by her favorite daughter, La Belle Iza, that one of the Sirens of Paris who has, under the present Empire, lured the most men to wreck.
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