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CHAPTER III
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Let's go." Marie lifts to me her sorrow-laved face.

She is sweet; she is affectionate; she is unhappy; but she does not love me.
We go away in disorder, along by the trees whose skeletons the winter has blackened.
When we arrive in our quarter, twilight has invaded the streets.

We hear gusts of talk about the Pocard scheme.

Ah, how fiercely people live and seek success! Little Antoinette, cautiously feeling her way by a big wall, hears us pass.

She stops and would look if she could.


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