It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the drawing-rooms in her face.


Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the...

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the...

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the...

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the...