Hortense

Hortense said to him:

The minister's interview with Hortense.

\"Sir, I am a mother. My only means of saving my son was to come to France. I know very well that I have transgressed a law. I am well aware of the risks we run. You have a right to cause our arrest. It would be just.\"

\"Just?\" responded the minister, \"no; legal? yes.\" The result of some anxious deliberation was that, in consideration of the alarming sickness of the young prince,


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Hortense said to him:

The minister's interview with Hortense.

\"Sir, I am a mother. My only means of saving my son was to come to France. I know very well that I have transgressed a law. I am well aware of the risks we run. You have a right to cause our arrest. It would be just.\"

\"Just?\" responded the minister, \"no; legal? yes.\" The result of some anxious deliberation was that, in consideration of the alarming sickness of the young prince,


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