We have decided to join them.

Some of the workmen of Plassans have already left the town this afternoon; those who still remain will join their brothers to-morrow." He spoke the word brothers with youthful emphasis.
"A contest is becoming inevitable," he added; "but, at any rate, we have right on our side, and we shall triumph." Miette listened to Silvere, her eyes meantime gazing in front of her, without observing anything.
"'Tis well," she said, when he had finished speaking.

And after a fresh pause she continued: "You warned me, yet I still hoped.

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