As for herself, she returned to her seat with a smile of savage scorn upon her lips, and she blasphemously repeated the fearful name of that God by whom she had just sworn, without ever having learned to know Him. "My God!" said she. "Fanatical fool! -My God is myself; and whoever will assist in my revenge!
Alexander DumasAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: french
- Born: July 24, 1802
- Died: December 5, 1870
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