Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part by Honoré de Balzac
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"What came of it?"
"He threatened to reduce my allowance, and to keep back a sum big enough for him to get along without me." "Poor Stephanie! He's not a man, he's a monster." "A calm and methodical monster, who wears a scratch, and who, every night--" "Well, every night--" "Wait a minute!--who takes a tumbler every night, and puts seven false teeth in it." "What a trap your marriage was! At any rate, Armand is rich." "Who knows?" "Good heavens! Why, you seem to me on the point of becoming very unhappy--or very happy." "Well, dear, how is it with you?" "Oh, as for me, I have nothing as yet but a pin that pricks me: but it is intolerable." "Poor creature! You don't know your own happiness: come, what is it?" Here the young woman whispered in the other's ear, so that it was |
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