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THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL 287
most touching. Marie collected her thoughts and then
prayed to God for the victim and its slayer. Amid the
laughter of the onlookers she placed a cross on the grave,
the cross of the Saviour who had—at last—delivered me
from a monster, innocent itself, but yet terrible as the
embodiment and instrument of the malice of a woman
who lacked the courage to persecute her husband openly.
After a few days’ mourning, during which she refused
to have anything to say to me—for she could have nothing
to say to a murderer—we left for Paris.
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