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"But you must be my ally," he answered. "Now listen, your husband has
spoken to the minister of a plan for the reform of the administration;
the paper I have shown you is a part of that plan. I want to know what
it is. Find out, and tell me to-night."
"I will," she answered, wholly unaware of the important nature of the
errand which brought des Lupeaulx to the house that morning.
"Madame, the hair-dresser."
"At last!" thought Celestine. "I don't see how I should have got out
of it if he had delayed much longer."
"You do not know to what lengths my devotion can go," said des
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