Hortense

when the private door of his chamber was slowly opened, and Josephine tremblingly entered.

Affecting interview.

\"Her eyes were swollen with weeping, her hair disordered, and she appeared in all the dishabille of unutterable anguish. Hardly conscious of what she did, in the delirium of her woe, she tottered into the middle of the room and approached the bed of her former husband. Then irresolutely stopping, she buried


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when the private door of his chamber was slowly opened, and Josephine tremblingly entered.

Affecting interview.

\"Her eyes were swollen with weeping, her hair disordered, and she appeared in all the dishabille of unutterable anguish. Hardly conscious of what she did, in the delirium of her woe, she tottered into the middle of the room and approached the bed of her former husband. Then irresolutely stopping, she buried


396 of 926