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The Fortune of the Rougons

CHAPTER V
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We did wrong to make an opening in the wall.

I have suffered ever since.

I was certain that door would bring us further misfortune--Oh! the innocent darlings, what sorrow! They will kill them as well, they will be shot down like dogs." Then she relapsed into catalepsy; she was no longer even aware of Silvere's presence.

Suddenly, however, she sat up, and gazed at the foot of her bed, with a fearful expression of terror.
"Why didn't you send them away ?" she cried, hiding her white head against the young man's breast.

"They are still there.


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