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The Widow Lerouge

CHAPTER XII
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Can he be going to sleep?
That's good! It's the first time I ever saw such a thing." "It is because, comrade, you have only had dealings with the smaller rogues.

All rascals of position--and I have had to do with more than one--are this sort.

At the moment of arrest, they are incapable of anything; their heart fails them; but they recover themselves next day." "Upon my word, one would say he has gone to sleep! What a joke!" "I tell you, my friend," added the old man, pointedly, "that nothing is more natural.

I am sure that, since the blow was struck, this young fellow has hardly lived: his body has been all on fire.

Now he knows that his secret is out; and that quiets him." "Ha, ha! M.Balan, you are joking: you say that that quiets him ?" "Certainly.


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