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It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. 'Be it as it may, Madame Barronneau approved of me. That is not to prejudice me, I hope?
John Baptist having smoked his cigarette down to his fingers' ends, Monsieur Rigaud had the magnanimity to throw him another. He lighted the second at the ashes of the first, and smoked on, looking sideways at his companion, who, preoccupied with his own case, hardly looked at him. 'Monsieur Barronneau left a widow. She was two-and-twenty. I continued to live at the Cross of Gold.
I put up at the Cross of Gold, kept then by Monsieur Henri Barronneau sixty-five at least, and in a failing state of health. I had lived in the house some four months when Monsieur Henri Barronneau had the misfortune to die; at any rate, not a rare misfortune, that. It happens without any aid of mine, pretty often.
I married Madame Barronneau. It is not for me to say whether there was any great disparity in such a match. Here I stand, with the contamination of a jail upon me; but it is possible that you may think me better suited to her than her former husband was. He had a certain air of being a handsome man which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man which he was not.
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