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Updated: May 6, 2025
"She was sinking into the gutter, she was on the point of being lost before she had reached womanhood, like fruit which spoils before it is ripe, when a man turned up who was fated to arm her for life's Struggle, and to change the vulgar thief into the accomplished monster of perversity whom you know." Here Papa Ravinet suddenly paused, and, looking at Daniel, said,
The old lady replied in his place, "My brother, madam, is an unfortunate man, who has paid for a moment's forgetfulness of duty, with his happiness, his prospects, and his very life. Do not question him. Let him be for you what he is for all of us, Anthony Ravinet, dealer in curiosities."
But Papa Ravinet shook his head, looking very wise, and said, "That is one explanation. I do not say no to it; but it is not the true one yet. Murder is so dangerous an expedient, that even the boldest criminals only resort to it in the last extremity, and generally very much against their inclination. Could not Brevan have possessed himself of M. Champcey's property without a murder?
Oh, no, no! tell me that there is no need for me to justify myself to" Then turning to Papa Ravinet, he said, "Suppose, we admit, for a moment, that she might have been in love, as you say, what would that prove?" The cunning old dealer remained apparently unmoved for a time; but his small eyes were sparkling with malicious delight and satisfaction.
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