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the comte d��artois flew into a passion with turgot, who went to the king and laid the matter before him.as mme. le brun remarked in her own case: ��it is no longer a question of fortune or success, it is only a question of saving one��s life,�� but many people were rash enough �ϻ����������ﻹ�и߶˹�����ů������to think and act otherwise, and frequently paid dearly for their folly. mme. de fleury returned to paris while, or just before, the terror was raging, and availed herself of the revolutionary law, by which a husband or wife who had emigrated might be divorced. but soon after she had dissolved her marriage and resumed the name of coigny she was arrested and sent to st. lazare, one of the most terrible of the prisons of the revolution, then crowded with people of all ages, ranks, and opinions.��my dear thomas, you quite misunderstand me. i asked for nothing, except that i might take mamma some day for a drive through their park. i hope i know how to behave better than that. another thing, too: miss propert has been there twice, once to tea and once to lunch. i hope she will not have her head turned, �ϻ����������ﻹ�и߶˹�����ů������for it seems that she did not take her meals in the housekeeper��s room, but upstairs. but that is none of my business: i am sure lady inverbroom may give her lunch on the top of the church-steeple if she wishes, and i said very distinctly that i had always found her a very well-beh
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