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Jasmin: Barber

CHAPTER II
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They wished him to accompany them to the old rendezvous in the square; but he refused, because he had a previous engagement.

The boys then began to hustle him, and proceeded to tear off his tattered clothes.

He could only bend his head before his assailants, but never said a word.
At length his good friend Miraben came up and rescued him.

He drove away the boys, and said to Jasmin, "Little one, don't breathe a word; your mother knows nothing.

They won't torment you long! Take up thy clothes," he said.


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