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Pierre and Jean

CHAPTER V
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An imperative need had just come over him to see Jean at once, to look at him at his leisure, to surprise him in his sleep, while the calm countenance and relaxed features were at rest and all the grimace of life put off.
Thus he might catch the dormant secret of his physiognomy, and if any appreciable likeness existed it would not escape him.
But supposing Jean were to wake, what could he say?
How could he explain this intrusion?
He stood still, his fingers clinched on the door-handle, trying to devise a reason, an excuse.

Then he remembered that a week ago he had lent his brother a phial of laudanum to relieve a fit of toothache.

He might himself have been in pain this night and have come to find the drug.

So he went in with a stealthy step, like a robber.

Jean, his mouth open, was sunk in deep, animal slumbers.


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