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Rh "It is extraordinary," he said, when the door was closed behind him, "how easily these husbands, whom we ridicule, gain an advanta: ° over us."

Lucien having left, Danglars took his place on the sofa, closed the

open book, and placing himself in a dreadfully dictatorial attitude, he began playing with the dog; but the animal, not liking him so well as Debray, and attempting to bite him, Danglars seized him by the skin of his neck, and throw him to the other side of the room upon a couch.