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CHAPTER VI ALL'S WELL
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Walking erect1, with a stiff and mechanical gait, without turning round to look at the abominable2 spectacle, without recking of what might happen if she were seen, Véronique went back to the Priory.
A single aim, a single hope sustained her: that of leaving the Isle3 of Sarek. She had had her fill of horror. Had she seen three corpses4, three women who had had their throats cut, or been shot, or even hanged, she would not have felt, as she did now, that her whole being was in revolt. But this, this torture, was too much. It involved an ignominy, it was an act of sacrilege, a damnable performance which surpassed the bounds of wickedness.
And then she was thinking of herself, the fourth and last victim. Fate seemed to be leading her towards that catastrophe5 as a person condemned6 to death is pushed on to the scaffold. How could she do other than tremble with fear? How could she fail to read a warning in the choice of the hill of the Great Oak for the torture of the three sisters Archignat?
She tried to find comfort in words:
"Everything will be explained. At the bottom of these hideous7 mysteries are quite simple causes, actions apparently8 fantastic but in reality performed by beings of the same species as myself, who behave as they do from criminal motives9 and in accordance with a determined10 plan. No doubt all this is only possible because of the war; the war brings about a
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1 erect | |
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3 isle | |
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5 catastrophe | |
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11 peculiar | |
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13 besieged | |
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15 superstitions | |
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19 gathering | |
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20 monstrous | |
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21 malevolent | |
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22 deserted | |
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26 feverish | |
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27 utterly | |
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28 exhausted | |
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29 squatted | |
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30 exasperated | |
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31 perspiration | |
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32 nervously | |
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33 shuddering | |
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34 tempted | |
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35 catching | |
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36 tragic | |
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37 thickets | |
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38 rustle | |
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43 knoll | |
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44 bent | |
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45 torment | |
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46 rite | |
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47 anguish | |
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48 fixed | |
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49 chasm | |
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50 talisman | |
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51 gulf | |
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52 preoccupied | |
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53 exhaustion | |
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54 satchel | |
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55 hesitation | |
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56 frail | |
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57 undertaking | |
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58 loathe | |
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59 effaced | |
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60 exalted | |
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61 fathom | |
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62 beheld | |
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63 zealous | |
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64 impulsive | |
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65 confession | |
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66 limpid | |
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67 spoke | |
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69 persistent | |
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70 beholding | |
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71 anecdotes | |
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72 minor | |
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73 ardent | |
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74 devoid | |
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75 accomplices | |
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76 soothing | |
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77 grassy | |
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78 huddle | |
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79 ivy | |
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80 tangle | |
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81 descended | |
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82 riddled | |
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83 subterranean | |
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84 domains | |
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85 trotted | |
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86 granite | |
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87 chamber | |
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88 pricked | |
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90 virgin | |
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91 imprisoned | |
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92 frantically | |
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93 drawn | |
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94 aperture | |
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95 helping | |
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96 syllable | |
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97 intonation | |
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98 obstinately | |
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99 undoubtedly | |
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100 stammered | |
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101 disappearance | |
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102 inadequacy | |
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103 frankly | |
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105 entirely | |
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106 agitated | |
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