Teks asli (Inggris)

CHAPTER XV TREACHEROUS KINDNESS The experience through which Jacqueline had just passed was not calculated to fortify her or to elevate her soul. She felt for the first time that her unprotected situation and her poverty exposed her to insult, for what other name could she give to the outrageous behavior of M. de Talbrun, which had degraded her in her own eyes? What right had that man to treat her as his plaything? Her pride and all her womanly instincts rose up in rebellion. He