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It can be said that there were two Aimee Favart A Aimée before the separation A Aimée after
When George told her that he was leaving her, Aimée took several minutes to make sure it was not a nightmare or a joke was he speaking? Was it her set to address her? Once she admitted that reality was insane, she took the trouble again to verify that she was still alive. This diagnosis took longer to establish: her heart had stopped beating, her blood to circulate, a cold silence of marble had petrified her organs, a stiffness prevented her eyes from blinking, but George continued to be heard of her—"you understand, my darling, I can't go on, everything has an end" - to be seen of her — haloes of sweat wet her shirt in the armpits -, to be felt of her - this capsizing smoke: smells of male, soap and linen refreshed with lavender. With surprise, almost with disappointment, she concluded that she survived
Sweet, eager, cordial, Georges multiplied sentences that met two contradictory demands: to announce that he was leaving and to pretend that it was not so serious
"We have been happy together My greatest happiness, I owe them to you I am sure I will die thinking of you, however I am the head of the family." Would you have loved me if I had been a man like that, a man who walks away, a man who neglects his commitments, woman, house, children, grandchildren, on a snap of his fingers?
She wanted to yell "yes, I would have loved you like that, that's what I've been waiting for you since day one," yet, as usual, she didn't utter a word Don't hurt him Especially don't hurt him Georges's happiness appeared to Aimée more i carrying only hers: so she had loved him for twenty-five years by forgetting herself