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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER IV
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At Mazas the under-jailors jeered at Thiers, Nadaud reprimanded them severely.

The Sieur Hubaut (the younger) awoke General Bedeau.

"General, you are a prisoner."-- "My person is inviolable."-- "Unless you are caught red-handed, in the very act."-- "Well," said Bedeau, "I am caught in the act, the heinous act of being asleep." They took him by the collar and dragged him to a _fiacre_.
On meeting together at Mazas, Nadaud grasped the hand of Greppo, and Lagrange grasped the hand of Lamoriciere.

This made the police gentry laugh.

A colonel, named Thirion, wearing a commander's cross round his neck, helped to put the Generals and the Representatives into jail.


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