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of his first marriage. He is married again, father of a
sweet httle girl, and looks ten years younger.
“Dear old boy,” he said in reply to my reproaches,
“the sympathy which everybody felt for the heroine of
the novel, when it was first published, absolves me. You
may gauge from this fact the great depth of the love I
bore her, for not only did it survive so much brutality,
but it communicated itself even to the reader. This,
however, has not prevented a French academician from
denouncing my constancy as weakness, my steadfast
loyalty to my family, including my children, baseness, in
view of my wife’s brutality, inconstancy and dishonesty.
I wonder whether this man would consider an insignificant
Caserio superior to an eminent Carnot, simply because the
former stabbed the latter?
“Moreover, this book, which you had wanted to write
yourself, is only the woof of a fabric the richness of
which is known only to those of my countrymen who have
followed my literary career as it unfolded itself side by
side with the sorrows of my heart, without suffering to
be influenced. I could have left the battlefield. I
remained steadfastly at my post. I fought against the
enemy at home, day and night. Was this not courage?
“The ‘poor, defenceless woman’ was backed by the
four Scandinavian kingdoms, where she counted nothing
but allies in her war against a man who was sick, solitary,
poor, and threatened with confinement in a lunatic asylum
because his intellect rebelled against the deification of
woman, this penultimate superstition of the free-thinkers.
“The dear souls who conceal their revengeful thoughts
under the term ‘divine justice’ have condenuied my
‘Confession’ in the name of their Nemesis divina,
bringing spurious evidence for their assertion that I had
deceived the husband of Marie’s first marriage. Let
them read the scene where the Baron throws his wife into
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