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Should M. Joumand stagger out on to the terrace, sit down heavily at the table next to mine, bury his head in his hands, and presently, in broken words, blurt out to me all that might be of interest?... "And I tell you I gave up everything for her everything." He stared at me with his old hopeless eyes. "She is more than the fiend I have described to you.
Wronged persons might be ever so communicative, but I surmised that persons in the wrong were reticent. Mlle. Ange'lique, therefore, would have to be modified by me in appearance and behaviour, toned down, touched up; and poor M. Joumand must look like a man of whom one could believe anything.... 'She ceased speaking.
Besides, why should I libel M. Joumand? Poor no, not poor M. Joumand! I warned myself against pitying him. One touch of 'sentimentality, and I should be lost. M. Joumand was ridiculous. I must keep him so. But what was his position in life? Was he a lawyer perhaps? or the proprietor of a shop in the Rue de Rivoli?
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