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L’Abbe Constantin

CHAPTER II
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Take care; Loulou is going to eat the climbing roses.

How hot he is!" "I came the long way by the wood, and rode very fast." Jean captured Loulou, who was directing his steps toward the climbing roses.

He unsaddled him, fastened him in the little shed, rubbed him down with a great handful of straw, after which he entered the house, relieved himself of his sword and kepi, replaced the latter by an old straw hat, value sixpence, and then went to look for his godfather in the garden.
The poor Abbe was indeed sad; he had scarcely closed an eye all night--he who generally slept so easily, so quietly, the sound sleep of a child.

His soul was wrung.

Longueval in the hands of a foreigner, of a heretic, of an adventuress! Jean repeated what Paul had said the evening before.
"You will have money, plenty of money, for your poor." "Money! money! Yes, my poor will not lose, perhaps they will even gain by it; but I must go and ask for this money, and in the salon, instead of my old and dear friend, I shall find this red-haired American.


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