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List of personal naming conventionsDifferent cultures have different conventions for personal names. This is a list of articles about particular cultures' naming conventions.
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Madame Desvarennes became serious again.
"No; I came to defend you."
Micheline looked surprised.
"It is time for me to speak. You are seriously menaced," continued the
there will be nothing left of your dowry in six months."
"Well!" said the Princess, gayly, "you will give us another."
Madame Desvarennes assumed her cold businesslike manner.
"ta/ta.html">Ta! ta! ta! Do you think there is no limit to my resources? I gave
thousand.html">thousand francs, in good stock, a house in the Rue de Rivoli, and eight
which I pay you interest. The fifteen hundred thousand francs have
had been sold without a reinvestment taking place."
The mistress.html">mistress stopped. She had spoken in that frank, determined, way of
asked:
"Did you know this, my girl?"
The Princess, deeply troubled, because now it was not a question of
can be done without your signature."
"I gave it," murmured Micheline.
"You gave it!" repeated the mistress in a tone of anger.html">anger. "When?"
"The day after my marriage.html">marriage."
"Your husband had the impudence to ask for it the day after your
it to him. You had settled all on me."
"Prudently! With a fellow like your husband!"
"Your mistrust must have been humiliating to him. I was ashamed of it.
marriage, and I loved Serge. I, therefore, signed the contract which you
to my husband."
Madame Desvarennes's anger was over. She was observing Micheline, and
thrown herself with blind confidence.
"And what did he say then?" she inquired.
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