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 1      III|       good husband.~ ~The young duchess was contemplating a separation
 2        X|  accrued from the estate of the duchess and of Lord Holland, had
 3       XI|        though it were a haughty duchess, and not the humble daughter
 4     XVII|   lovelorn damsel—you will be a duchess.”~ ~She hid her face in
 5      LII|       de Sairmeuse.~ ~The young duchess was now compelled to live
 6      LII|    pleasure in compromising the duchess.~ ~He was a constant visitor
 7      LII|        an hour.~ ~And the proud duchess was always punctual at the
 8      LII|        wine merchant, which the duchess paid for, and which he drank
 9     LIII|         in Paris society.~ ~The duchess had her own apartments,
10     LIII|      this sentence afforded the duchess no relief. The culprit had
11     LIII| demanding an interview with the duchess.~ ~And she received them.
12     LIII|     frightened her, brought the duchess this laconic epistle:~ ~“
13     LIII|   killed instantly.~ ~Still the duchess dared not rejoice.~ ~She
14     LIII|    exactly where she stood, the duchess shortly refused, and the
15     LIII| remarked her friends, “that the duchess—such a very superior woman—
16     LIII|  wavered in his devotion to the duchess. Every three months he presented
17     LIII|     Lacheneur is coming!”~ ~The duchess was not mistaken.~ ~Jean
18     LIII|   opening in the floor, saw the duchess give a banknote to Mother
19      LIV|       him.~ ~He did not ask the duchess to accompany him.~ ~“The
20      LIV|      was strikingly that of the duchess.~ ~“It is certainly my wife;
21      LIV|      Sairmeuse, he had made the duchess multiply her visits to the
22      LIV|         he saw the duke and the duchess in prison, and the great
23      LIV|  infamous plot, the name of the duchess was all they really knew
24      LIV|       understand that since the duchess had been compelled to submit
25      LIV|        was in disorder, for the duchess, after returning from the
26      LIV|         all, either through the duchess or through the Widow Chupin;
27      LIV|      instructions, wrote to the duchess that she must come to the
28      LIV|       Medea’s last agony.~ ~The duchess and her maid were attired
29      LIV|      suddenly, and, seizing the duchess by the back of the neck,
30      LIV|       fled; but if he fled, the duchess might be captured, for he
31       LV|  Borderie, and the guilt of the duchess, would undoubtedly be made
32       LV|       from that of Otto.~ ~“The duchess is out of danger,” murmured
33       LV|       understanding between the duchess, Otto, and Camille—no other
34       LV|    handed him a letter from the duchess.~ ~He hastily broke the
35       LV|         from top to bottom. The duchess died very suddenly this