Jack Vettriano Painting

Jack Vettriano Painting
"She will live!" said Monsieur Darzac, in a voice strangely touching.
"And we will find the stolen articles," said Monsieur Dax. "But what was in the cabinet?"
"Twenty years of my life," replied the illustrious professor sadly
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"or rather of our lives - the lives of myself and my daughter! Yes, our most precious documents, the records of our secret experiments and our labours of twenty years were in that cabinet. It is an rreparable loss to us and, I venture to say, to science. All the processes by which I had been able to arrive at the precious proof of the destructibility of matter were there - all. The man who came wished to take all from me, - my daughter and my work - my heart and my soul."
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