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White Lies

CHAPTER XV
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Oh! my brain has whirled through a thousand agonies.

And I have come back a thousand times to the same thing; you and I must see each other's face no more." "Oh!" cried Rose, "is there no way but this ?" "Take care," she screamed, wildly, to her and Camille, "I am on the verge of madness; is it for you two to thrust me over the precipice?
Come, now, if you are a man of honor, if you have a spark of gratitude towards the poor woman who has given you all except her fair name--that she will take to the grave in spite of you all--promise that you will leave Raynal's house this minute if he is alive, and let me die in honor as I have lived." "No, no!" cried Camille, terror-stricken; "it cannot be.

Heaven is merciful, and Heaven sees how happy we are.

Be calm! these are idle fears; be calm! I say.

For if it is so I will obey you.


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