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Capital punishment was the portion of Mme. Acquet, Flierlé, Lefebre, Harel, Grand-Charles, Fleur d'Épine, Le Héricey, Gautier-Boismale, Lemarchand and Alexandre Buquet. The Marquise de Combray was condemned to twenty-two years' imprisonment in irons, and so were Lerouge, called Bornet, Vannier and Bureau-Placène.
"Yes," continued he furiously carving a leg of Presale mutton "Yes, there is a child, and here is his history! The Widow Lerouge, when a young woman, is in the service of a great lady, immensely rich. Her husband, a sailor, probably had departed on a long voyage. The lady had a lover found herself enciente.
At the baptism of our son, who was called Jacques after my father, to please her, I squandered all I had economized during my youth, more than three hundred pistoles, with which I had intended purchasing a meadow that lay in the midst of our property." M. Daburon was boiling over with impatience, but he could do nothing. "Go on, go on," he said every time Lerouge seemed inclined to stop.
The doctor was sent for; and, since then, she has not recovered consciousness. The doctor " "It is well," interrupted M. Daburon. "Let us leave that for the present. Do you know, sir, whether Widow Lerouge had any enemies?" "None that I know of, sir." "She had no enemies? Well, now tell me, does there exist to your knowledge any one having the least interest in the death of this poor woman?"
"Yes, sir, and as the detective to whom I confessed all, advised me to bring it with me, I went to take it from the place where I always kept it, and I have it here." "Give it to me." Lerouge took from his coat pocket an old parchment pocket-book, fastened with a leather thong, and withdrew from it a paper yellowed by age and carefully sealed. "Here it is," said he.
Then I fell upon my wife, and beat her until she couldn't stir." Lerouge spoke in a hoarse voice, every now and then thrusting his fists into his eyes. "I pardoned her," he continued; "but the man who beats his wife and then pardons her is lost. In the future, she took better precautions, became a greater hypocrite, and that was all.
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