The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3 by Honoré de Balzac
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page 82 of 125 (65%)
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"You find it so?"
III. Your wife discovers that it is time to send your boy to a boarding school, with whom, a little time ago, she was never going to part. IV. *In Lord Abergavenny's suit for divorce, the _valet de chambre_ deposed that "the countess had such a detestation of all that belonged to my lord that he had very often seen her burning the scraps of paper which he had touched in her room." V. If an indolent woman becomes energetic, if a woman who formerly hated study learns a foreign language; in short, every appearance of a complete change in character is a decisive symptom. VI. The woman who is happy in her affections does not go much into the world. |
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