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"'Put your foot down good and hard; the only way to manage a wife. Take my word for it.' The Colonel was perhaps unaware that he had coerced his own wife into her grave."

"The story did not seem especially to impress Edna. She had one of her own to tell, of a woman who paddled away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back...It was a pure invention. She said that Madame Antoine had related it to her. That, also, was an invention. Perhaps it was a dream she had had."