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Pierre and Jean

CHAPTER V
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The sound rose through the empty staircase, penetrating through walls and doors, and dying away in the rooms where it fell on the torpid ears of the sleeping household.

Pierre had taken to walking to and fro between his bed and the window.

What was he going to do?
He was too much upset to spend this day at home.

He wanted still to be alone, at any rate till the next day, to reflect, to compose himself, to strengthen himself for the common every-day life which he must take up again.
Well, he would go over to Trouville to see the swarming crowd on the sands.

That would amuse him, change the air of his thoughts, and give him time to inure himself to the horrible thing he had discovered.
As soon as morning dawned he made his toilet and dressed.


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