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292 "'Ah!' responded the woman, with an expression impossible to render, èI thought it was for something else.'

"'Woman, woman—why do you have such ideas!' cried Caderousse; or, if you have them, why don't you keep them to yourself?'

"'Well,' said La Carconte, after a moment's pause, 'you are not a man!'

"'What do you mean?' added Caderousse.

"'If you had been a man, you would not have let him go from here.'

"'Woman!'

"' Or else he should not have reached Beaucaire.'