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As to Europe, after having completed her arrondisement on the Baltic her earnest aim is partly direct conquest, and partly sovereign preponderance. Direct conquest, so far as the Sclave race is spread; which the Czars desire to unite under their despotic sceptre.
"Listen; you arrived in Paris three months ago, accompanied by a young demoiselle whom you had decoyed from her home." "She was my wife." "Yes; you married her after your arrival here. The official records of the 21st arrondisement prove that married her without her parents' consent." "That is not so. They approved." "How could they? Your wife's father is French vice-consul at Gibraltar.
"I know you will not be indifferent to her future. Her relations are considering it, and there is the programme; she ought to marry a notary whose practice should be in the chief town of an arrondisement. This notary, who would of course be elected deputy in three years, should settle on a dower of a hundred thousand francs on her." "She can do better than that," said Bongrand coldly.
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