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La-bas

CHAPTER XVI
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And how many other of these priests she has gone around with have been her lovers also?
For she confessed, in a cry, that those are the men she loves.

Ah, if one went about much in the clerical world one would doubtless learn remarkable things concerning her and her husband.

It is strange, all the same that Chantelouve, who plays a singular role in that household, has acquired a deplorable reputation, and she hasn't.

Never have I heard anybody speak of her dodges--but, oh, what a fool I am! It isn't strange.

Her husband doesn't confine himself to religious and polite circles.


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