When Armand talks to Desiree knowing that the baby is not totally white, he does it very coldly, like he was numb from pain, this is also expressed when it says "in a voice which must have stabbed him, if he was human- meaning that he was emotionally void or unattached. ... He also put his faith into Desiree, this may sound like it is unemotional but its not, by marrying lower down the relative hierarchy and then, in his mind, she brought "unclean- blood into the family. ...

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