title: The Stain: Crisis in Conscience a Historical Novel (Middle English Edition)
author: Ed DeVos
description: Ed DeVos is a retired highly decorated US Army Infantry officer with over 20 years of active duty service in Vietnam, Germany, and various other locations in the United States and overseas. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College where he received his Master's Degree in Military Arts and Science with an emphasis on military history. After his retirement from the Army as a self employed businessman for over 17 years, he helped hundreds of families in all aspects of investments and insurance. For many years, he has served Jesus Christ in the churches he attended in various administrative and teaching positions. In addition Ed has written a number of newspaper articles concerning South Carolina's involvement in the American Revolutionary War as well as being published in the Infantry Magazine at Fort Benning, Georgia. Ed and his wife Susan now enjoy their retirement home in McCormick, South Carolina.
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  # Immortals Crowned by the French Academy: Conscience, v4
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Hector Malot
  
  
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  BOOK 4.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXXVI. CONSCIENCE ASSERTS ITSELF
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXXVII. ATTEMPTED REPARATION
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE IMPORTANT QUESTION
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXXIX. CONCESSION TO CONSCIENCE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XL. PHILLIS IS SURPRISED
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XLI. A TROUBLED SOUL
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XLII. THE POWER OF HYPNOTISM
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XLIII. THE TERRIBLE REVELATION
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XLIV. AFTER LONG YEARS
  
  
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      This etext was produced by David Widger—widger@cecomet.net
  
  
  ## BOOK 4.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER XXXVI. CONSCIENCE ASSERTS
  
  
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  During the first years of his sojourn in Paris, Saniel had
  
  
  published in a Latin Quarter review an article on the "Pharmacy of
  
  
  Shakespeare"—the poison of Hamlet, and of Romeo and Juliet; and
  
  
  although since his choice of medicine he read but little bes