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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER V
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Only one in a hundred speaks.

It is to say, 'Good!' This is how it appears to them.

The law of the 31st May is abrogated--'Well done!' Universal suffrage is re-established--'Also well done!' The reactionary majority has been driven away--'Admirable!' Thiers is arrested--'Capital!' Changarnier is seized--'Bravo!' Round each placard there are _claqueurs_.

Ratapoil explains his _coup d'etat_ to Jacques Bonhomme, Jacques Bonhomme takes it all in.

Briefly, it is my impression that the people give their consent." "Let it be so," said I.
"But," asked Girard of me, "what will you do, Monsieur Victor Hugo ?" I took my scarf of office from a cupboard, and showed it to him.
He understood.
We shook hands.
As he went out Carini entered.
Colonel Carini is an intrepid man.


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