right to strip them of the rank that belonged to them?\" And as I looked at him, all amazed, he added, with increasing rage, \"Have you not read the Code, then?\"
\"'I avowed my ignorance, recalling to myself that he had formerly considered it reprehensible, in any woman, and especially in members of his own family, to dare to avow that they knew any thing about legislation. Then he explained to me with volubility the
right to strip them of the rank that belonged to them?\" And as I looked at him, all amazed, he added, with increasing rage, \"Have you not read the Code, then?\"
\"'I avowed my ignorance, recalling to myself that he had formerly considered it reprehensible, in any woman, and especially in members of his own family, to dare to avow that they knew any thing about legislation. Then he explained to me with volubility the
