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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER IV
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"Look me in the face," said Charras to him.

Thirion moved away.
Thus, without counting other arrests which took place later on, there were imprisoned during the night of the 2d of December, sixteen Representatives and seventy-eight citizens.

The two agents of the crime furnished a report of it to Louis Bonaparte.

Morny wrote "Boxed up;" Maupas wrote "Quadded." The one in drawing-room slang, the other in the slang of the galleys.

Subtle gradations of language..


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