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Chapter XXV
THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH
The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room
with a deferential little gesture. His French is better than mine, so he knew
exactly what he was handling. ”
She awoke out of a doze, as though she had never been sleeping. He found that the skiff had been dashed against one of the buttresses of
the bridge. Anna was not “Alcide” of the
“Ambassador’s,” whose subtly demure smile and piquant glances had called him
to her side from the moment of their first meeting. Brother and Sister. It wasn't worth
while to invest imaginatively a man with evil projects simply because he was
physically ugly. There were too many kills, too many unsolved files in too
many cabinets. Wild. When the carpenter a moment afterwards stretched out his hand, scarcely
knowing whether he was alive or dead, he found himself alone. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and
depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is
neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and
broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the
fate to which I consigned his father.
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