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Chapter 11


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The Corsican Ogre.
At the sight of this agitation Louis XVIII.

pushed from him violently the table at which he was sitting.
"What ails you, baron ?" he exclaimed.

"You appear quite aghast.

Has your uneasiness anything to do with what M.de Blacas has told me, and M.de Villefort has just confirmed ?" M.de Blacas moved suddenly towards the baron, but the fright of the courtier pleaded for the forbearance of the statesman; and besides, as matters were, it was much more to his advantage that the prefect of police should triumph over him than that he should humiliate the prefect.
"Sire"-- stammered the baron.
"Well, what is it ?" asked Louis XVIII.


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