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\u2018You\u2019ll be disappointed, Gladys,\u2019 he said quietly. \u2018You want me to tell you that I was mad about you. And that\u2019s true. But are you asking if I\u2019m still in love with you? No. That\u2019s the past. What can I say? Nothing lasts for ever.\u2019 \u2018Is that really true, Claude?\u2019 she said, smiling, but a sharp pain shot through her heart. \u2018You\u2019re still beautiful, Gladys, but when I look at you, I don\u2019t know who you are any more.<\/p>\n

To me, you\u2019re merely the ghost of what you once were. I\u2019m finally free, happy, set free at last. I don\u2019t love you any more. I once loved a young girl in a ball gown who stood on a balcony in London one June evening \u2026 She mocked me cruelly that night.\u2019 \u2018Just a little, but you\u2019re getting your revenge now, Claude.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Not really.\u2019 \u2018Just a little \u2026\u2019 They looked at each other in silence. She cupped her face in her hand. \u2018You\u2019re holding a grudge against me, Claude. Would it please you to know that you\u2019ve played a greater, more important role in my life than you could know? I was never in love with you, yet I\u2019ll never forget you. I was an innocent child. You were the one who made me realise my power for the first time. You hold it against me, but without realising it, you\u2019re the one who poisoned my life.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never again experienced that feeling of intoxicating pride, never. I never again felt that exact sense of exhilaration. I\u2019m the one who should be holding a terrible grudge against you.\u2019 \u2018Are you mocking me?\u2019 he said with a start. \u2018Now, now,\u2019 she said sweetly, trembling with cruel, manipulative emotion. \u2018All that is in the past. Tell me, you wanted to kiss me back then, didn\u2019t you? And you were too cowardly to do it?<\/p>\n

Well, do it now, and then everything can be forgiven and forgotten.\u2019 \u2018No,\u2019 he said, shaking his head. \u2018As wonderful as your kiss might be, it will never be as sweet as the kiss I desired for such a long time.\u2019 They stared at each other, like two enemies, then Gladys slowly looked away. She let out an angry, stifled, little painful laugh.<\/p>\n

\u2018You wanted to see Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se?\u2019 \u2018Yes, please.\u2019 She rang the bell and asked for her daughter. She sat still and silent until Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se came into the room. Her face looked calm but every now and then her mouth grew slightly tense. Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and Beauchamp talked, and she answered when one of them spoke to her, but her voice, soft and low, echoed in her ears as if it belonged to a stranger.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m suffering,\u2019 she thought, \u2018but I don\u2019t want to, I don\u2019t know how to suffer \u2026\u2019 OceanofPDF.com Beauchamp left.<\/p>\n

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Ir\u00e8ne N\u00e9mirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and immigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with David Golder, which was followed by more than a dozen other books.<\/p>\n

Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, Suite Fran\u00e7aise was published posthumously for the first time in 2006. OceanofPDF.com ALSO BY IR\u00c8NE N\u00c9MIROVSKY Suite Fran\u00e7aise Fire in the Blood David Golder The Ball Snow in Autumn The Courilof Affair Dimanche and Other Stories All Our Worldly Goods OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com A VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL, MAY 2012 Translation copyright \u00a9 2010 by Sandra Smith All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in France as J\u00e9zabel by \u00c9ditions Albin Michel, Paris, in 1936. Copyright \u00a9 1936 by \u00c9ditions Albin Michel. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Vintage Books, a division of the Random House Group Limited, London, in 2010. Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.<\/p>\n

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author\u2019s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data N\u00e9mirovsky, Ir\u00e8ne, 1903\u20131942. [J\u00e9zabel. English] Jezebel \/ Ir\u00e8ne N\u00e9mirovsky; translated from the French by Sandra Smith. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-307-74546-0 (trade pbk.) eBook ISBN 978-0-307-94986-8 1. Trials (Murder)\u2014France\u2014Fiction. I. Smith, Sandra. II. Title. PQ2627.E4J4913 2012 843\u2032.912\u2014dc23 2012000607 Cover photograph \u00a9 Herbert Matter\/ Cond\u00e9 Nast Archive\/Corbis Based on a design by Chip Kidd www.vintagebooks.com v3.1 OceanofPDF.com Contents Cover About the Author Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 OceanofPDF.com Introduction A woman takes the stand, accused of murdering her young lover.<\/p>\n

A succession of witnesses are called to testify to her character.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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