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This noble youth, who protected her from the anger of De Clameran, who restored her peace of mind and the exercise of her own free will, by destroying all proofs of her past, was, must be, the child whom she had abandoned: Valentin-Raoul. In an instant, all was forgotten save the present.
On these occasions she always took the humiliating precaution of locking up Valentine until she should return. It was in this sad, solitary house, in the month of May, that the son of Valentine de la Verberie was born. He was taken to the parish priest, and christened Valentin-Raoul Wilson.
She dropped tremblingly into her seat, murmuring: "My God! How did he discover it?" Had her own happiness alone been at stake, she would have instantly thrown herself upon a Clameran's mercy. But she had her family to defend, and the consciousness of this gave her strength to resist him. "Do you wish to insult me, monsieur?" she asked. "Do you pretend to say you have forgotten Valentin-Raoul?"
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