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"I am in his hands!" Gherardi turned as crimson as he had before been pale. "Your husband!" He strode forward with a threatening movement then stopped short, as he confronted Aubrey Leigh. "Your husband! So! You are married then!" and he laughed fiercely "Married by the law, and excommunicated by the Church! A pleasant position for the last of the Hermensteins!
You would have me wed a man with fraud in my heart, with the secret intent to push upon him the claims of a Church he abhors, and this after he has made me his wife! You would have me tell lies to him before the Eternal! And you call that the way to salvation? No, Monsignor! It is the wealth of the Hermensteins you desire! not the immortal rescue or heavenly benefit of the last of their children!
Conceive for a moment the wealth of the Hermensteins being used to promulgate the reformer Leigh's threadbare theories, and feed his rascal poor! Do you know what Sylvie Hermenstein's fortune is? No, I suppose you do not! But I do! She tries to keep it a secret, but I have made it my business to find out! It is enormous! and it is ever increasing.
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