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The Fortune of the Rougons

CHAPTER I
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Here's Nazeres! Here's Poujols! They're all here; not one has failed to answer the summons.

Valqueyras! Hold, there's the parson amongst them; I've heard about him, he's a staunch Republican." He was becoming intoxicated with the spectacle.

Now that each battalion consisted of only a few insurgents he had to name them yet more hastily, and his precipitancy gave him the appearance of one in a frenzy.
"Ah! Miette," he continued, "what a fine march past! Rozan! Vernoux! Corbiere! And there are more still, you'll see.

These have only got scythes, but they'll mow down the troops as close as the grass in their meadows--Saint-Eutrope! Mazet! Les Gardes, Marsanne! The whole north side of the Seille! Ah, we shall be victorious! The whole country is with us.

Look at those men's arms, they are hard and black as iron.
There's no end to them.


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