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"'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?'
Counting the Money.
"'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.'
