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The Fortune of the Rougons

CHAPTER III
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Vuillet was commissioned to write an article to that effect, and publish it on the morrow in the "Gazette." Neither he nor the marquis raised any objection.

They had, no doubt, received instructions from the mysterious individuals to whom they sometimes made pious allusions.

The clergy and the nobility were already resigned to the course of lending a strong hand to the victors, in order to crush their common enemy, the Republic.
While the yellow drawing-room was deliberating on the evening in question, Aristide was perspiring with anxiety.

Never had gambler, staking his last louis on a card, felt such anguish.

During the day the resignation of his chief, the sub-prefect, had given him much matter for reflection.


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