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There were, as I have said, two opinions,—one, not inconsistent with the
circumstances or with the nature of the case, that the wife of Aris was very indignant at his
adultery when she heard that he had fled to Rome with that love of his, pretending to have
fled for fear of her, or in order, as there had been a criminal connection between them
before, to be now formally joined in wedlock; and that she was so excited with feminine
indignation, that she preferred dying to bearing it.
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