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people, husband.’
Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but
hearts draw apart. This woman must have loved this man,
to all appearance, judging from the amount of love with-
in her; but probably, in the daily and reciprocal reproaches
of the horrible distress which weighed on the whole group,
this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her
anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband.
Nevertheless, caressing appellations had survived, as is of-
ten the case. She called him: My dear, my little friend, my
good man, etc., with her mouth while her heart was silent.
The man resumed his writing.
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