The narrator of this novel turns to the audience and says "we are all conscious of our own wrong-doing" after a husband yells "You loathe me!"
The narrator of this novel turns to the audience and says "we are all conscious of our own wrong-doing" after a husband yells "You loathe me!" to his devastated wife; that adulterous husband is said to illustrate "the modern parable of the Prodigal Father." An artist in this novel instructs a model to pose in the manner of Delilah cutting Samson's hair. A couple in this novel is poisoned with a rare Brazilian toxin by the enigmatic Baron Montes. In this novel, whose "introduction" lasts nearly 150 pages, news that a man (*) embezzled funds from his War Department outpost in Algiers leads to the death of that man's brother, the Marshall, and the Polish sculptor Wenceslas Steinbock torments the title accomplice of Valerie by marrying Hortense. For 10 points, name this novel about a spinster's scheme to ruin the Hulot family, part of Balzac's Human Comedy.
The narrator of this novel turns to the audience and says "we are all conscious of our own wrong-doing" after a husband yells "You loathe me!"
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