She was not shocked; it seemed to her that every woman had a right to arrange her life as she liked, when she was alone and free in the world. For he… - Émile Zola

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She was not shocked; it seemed to her that every woman had a right to arrange her life as she liked, when she was alone and free in the world. For her own part, however, she had never given way to such ideas; her sense of right and her healthy nature naturally maintained her in the respectability in which she had always lived.