Hortense

his jealousy fearfully. A sense of \"honor\" would allow him to lavish his attentions upon guilty favorites, while that same sense of \"honor\" would urge him to wreak vengeance upon his unhappy, injured wife, because, in her neglect and anguish, with no false, but only a true affection, her memory turned to the loved companion of her childhood. According to the standard of the fashionable world, Beauharnais was a very


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his jealousy fearfully. A sense of \"honor\" would allow him to lavish his attentions upon guilty favorites, while that same sense of \"honor\" would urge him to wreak vengeance upon his unhappy, injured wife, because, in her neglect and anguish, with no false, but only a true affection, her memory turned to the loved companion of her childhood. According to the standard of the fashionable world, Beauharnais was a very


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