[White Lies by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookWhite Lies CHAPTER XX 19/25
Turn your back on her, and forget she ever lived; she is dead to you." "There is something to be done besides that," said Edouard, gloomily. "What ?" "Vengeance." "That is my affair, young man.
When I come back from the Rhine, she will tell me who her seducer is.
She has promised." "And don't you see through that ?" said Edouard, gnashing his teeth; "that is only to gain time: she will never tell you.
She is young in years, but old in treachery." He groaned and was silent a moment, then laying his hand on Raynal's arm said grimly, "Thank Heaven, we don't depend on her for information! I know the villain." Raynal's eyes flashed: "Ah! then tell me this moment." "It is that scoundrel Dujardin." "Dujardin! What do you mean ?" "I mean that, while you were fighting for France, your house was turned into a hospital for wounded soldiers." "And pray, sir, to what more honorable use could they put it ?" "Well, this Dujardin was housed by you, was nursed by your wife and all the family; and in return has seduced your sister, my affianced." "I can hardly believe that.
Camille Dujardin was always a man of honor, and a good soldier." "Colonel, there has been no man near the place but this Dujardin.
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