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"Perhaps. But hardly to the extent of imagining that M. de La Tour
d'Azyr will ever lift a finger to do as you suggest."
"In which, as usual, you are wrong. He will certainly do so if I
ask him."
"If you ask him?" Sheer horror rang in his voice.
"Why, yes. You see, I have not yet said that I will be Marquise de
La Tour d'Azyr. I am still considering. It is a position that has
its advantages. One of them is that it ensures a suitor's complete
obedience."
"So, so. I see the crooked logic of your mind. You might go so far
as to say to him: 'Refuse me this, and I shall refuse to be your
marquise.' You would go so far as that?"
"At need, I might."
"And do you not see the converse implication? Do you not see that
your hands would then be tied, that you would be wanting in honour
if afterwards you refused him? And do you think that I would
consent to anything that could so tie your hands? Do you think I
want to see you damned, Aline?"
Her hand fell away from his arm.
"Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience.


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