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This unexpected argument pleased the clerk, and he uttered a murmur of
approbation.
"
Oh, no, she will not be forced," said the lady. "Where there is no
love, one cannot be obliged to love in spite of herself."
"And if the wife deceives her husband, what is to be done?" said the
lawyer.
"That should not happen," said the old man. "He must have his eyes about
him."
"And if it does happen, all the same? You will admit that it does
happen?"
"
It happens among the upper classes, not among us," answered the old
man. "And if any husband is found who is such a fool as not to rule his
wife, he will not have robbed her. But no scandal, nevertheless. Love
or not, but do not disturb the household. Every husband can govern his
wife. He has the necessary power. It is only the imbecile who does not
succeed in doing so."
Everybody was silent. The clerk moved, advanced, and, not wishing to lag
behind the others in the conversation, began with his eternal smile:
"
Yes, in the house of our employer, a scandal has arisen, and it is very
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