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Dark details she could now explain. Vaudrey's falsehoods were suddenly manifested. "He lied! Ah! how he had lied!" She recalled his anxiety to hide the journals from her, his oft-repeated suggestions, his precautions, the increasing number of his night-sessions that made him pale. Pale from debauchery! And she pitied him!
Guy, seated in a corner on a divan, was still thinking of Adrienne, of those night-sessions, of those expositions, of those agricultural competitions invented by Sulpice, and caught but snatches of the conversation, jests, and nonsensical stories which were made at the cost of the colleagues of the Chamber and political friends: "You know how Badiche learned at the last election that he was not elected?"
I detest politics and journals I am told quite enough about them. Politics! that which takes my husband from me! My uncle, Doctor Reboux, often said to me: 'Never marry a doctor; he is only half a husband. Vaudrey is like a doctor. Always absent, with his everlasting night-sessions." "Night-sessions?" asked Lissac. "Yes, at the Chamber continually "
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