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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: my condition to lie to me, to betray me--it's infamous--
infamous!" His dream was shattered. Mace had succeeded in
his task; the disenchantment of M. de Saint Pierre was complete.
That night the fastidious widow joined the thieves and
prostitutes in the St. Lazare Prison.
It was all very well to imprison the widow, but her participation
in the outrage on M. de Saint Pierre was by no means established.
The reputed brother, who had been in the habit of attending on
her at the Rue de Boulogne, still eluded the searches of the
police. In silence lay the widow's only hope of baffling her
enemies. Unfortunately for the widow, confinement told on her
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