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The Ink-Stain

CHAPTER IV
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THE STORY OF SYLVESTRE.
8 P.M.
I am back in my study.

It is very cold; Madame Menin, my housekeeper, has let the fire out.

Hallo! she has left her duster, too, lying on the manuscript of my essay.
Is it an omen, a presage of that dust which awaits my still unfinished work?
Who can fathom Dame Fortune's ironic humor?
Eight o'clock....

Counsellor Mouillard has finished his pleadings and must be sitting down to a game of whist with Counsellors Horlet and Hublette, of the Court of Bourges.


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