Blaise the Cobbler (1771) - Page 25

BLAISINE.

I am forced to.

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But what is to be done?

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What will become of us?

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I know very well where this comes from.

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And so do I.

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It is a trick of Madame Pince.

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It is a trick of Monsieur Pince.

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The woman's.

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The man's.

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The wife's, I tell you.

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No, the husband's; you do not know that Monsieur Pince loved me and still loves me.

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But you do not know, yourself, that Madame Pince loved me.

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You?

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Yes, and that before their marriage and ours...

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But me, for two years.

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But me, for six months.

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He used to come to our place.

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She used to entice me to hers: and more than a hundred times...