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"I thought you cared for Les Aigues!" said the count to his wife.
"Don't you feel that I care a thousand times more for your life?" she
replied. "Besides, ever since the death of my poor Olympe and
Michaud's murder the country is odious to me; all the faces I meet
seem to wear a treacherous or threatening expression."
The next evening the sub-prefect, having ended his visit at the
chateau, was welcomed in the salon of Monsieur Gaubertin at Ville-aux-
Fayes in these words:--
"Well, Monsieur des Lupeaulx, so you have returned from Les Aigues?"
"Yes," answered the sub-prefect with a little air of triumph and a
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