Hortense

evening sighed through the deserted galleries. Near me sat this woman, herself the living ruin of so extraordinary a fortune. A confused and undefinable emotion forced me to silence. The queen also seemed absorbed in her reflections.

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INTERVIEW IN THE COLISEUM.


\"'How many events have contributed to bring us together,' she said finally, turning towards me, 'events of which I often have been the puppet or the victim,


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evening sighed through the deserted galleries. Near me sat this woman, herself the living ruin of so extraordinary a fortune. A confused and undefinable emotion forced me to silence. The queen also seemed absorbed in her reflections.

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INTERVIEW IN THE COLISEUM.


\"'How many events have contributed to bring us together,' she said finally, turning towards me, 'events of which I often have been the puppet or the victim,


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