This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...her cruelty drove me to the rash deed? Will you do this? Crisp. Certainly. She will be delighted with the delicate flattery of the deed. Plume. Thank you, M. Crisp! (Wringing his hand.) A dying man thanks you. Farewell! farewell! Exit. Crisp. I'm afraid you'll fare very ill. A pity these fools, who always keep ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...her cruelty drove me to the rash deed? Will you do this? Crisp. Certainly. She will be delighted with the delicate flattery of the deed. Plume. Thank you, M. Crisp! (Wringing his hand.) A dying man thanks you. Farewell! farewell! Exit. Crisp. I'm afraid you'll fare very ill. A pity these fools, who always keep talking about drowning themselves, never do it. Like the supernumerary puppies of a litter, the world would be much better without them. Exit. Enter Vibert. Vibert. The plan is working to perfection. The blind fool is rushing headlong to destruction. What all the police officers in the world cannot do, a woman can accomplish with a smile and a soft word. Ah, M. Savari! How little you dream that the woman you love is the widow of the man you killed--that she is striving to win your love in order to betray you--that your friend, the Count Rubini, is a police officer in disguise, who watches you every day during your interviews with her you love, noting your every look and word, and who, when you expect her arms to embrace you, will supplant those white arms, with steel bracelets and the inexorable grasp of the outraged law. O, marvellous blindness of love! O, foolish heart of man! But you, M. Vibert! How much wiser are you? You, too, have been looking on this beauty, day after day, until its lustre has blinded you. You have found, at last, that you, too, have a heart, and, in finding that, have lost your head. You, a poor police officer, because you happen to be wearing rich clothes for a day or two, and calling yourself a Count, have dared to feel like one, and persuade yourself that you are what you seem; like an actor, who, having played the part of a king, for a night, fancies ever afterwards that he wears a crown, and struts through life...
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