Chapter

 1  2,5| pride, on my return after an absence of eighteen months, I showed
 2  2,5|      I discovered that in my absence you had become a mother.
 3  3,1|  twice before. He forgot the absence of his beard, his almost
 4  3,4|      birth to a child in his absence, he moved heaven and earth
 5  3,4|    as he had done before his absence. But he watched her, or
 6  6,2|   wife became a mother in my absence. I sought the child for
 7  7,6|   alarmed, and the prolonged absence of Madame d'Argeles increased
 8  7,7|       de Coralth during your absence. When the servant handed
 9  8,1|    have you been doing in my absence? Come, make haste. Light
10  8,5|      Thanks to Madame Leon's absence, she found herself alone,
11  9,4|     me: that twice during my absence - on Saturday evening and
12  9,5|      explain and justify her absence, if the servants, who had
13 15,6|    it, owing to my husband's absence. All these proofs I am ready
14 17,3|      had not returned in his absence, so he stationed himself
15 18,1|  might have noticed her long absence. ~An unnecessary precaution.
16 18,2|      more frequent leaves of absence. ~However, strange to say,
17 20,1|    all his servants leave of absence. The Hotel de Chalusse will