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Nana. The Miller’s Daughter. Captain Burle. Death of Olivier Becaille

CHAPTER V
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"The theater is not large, but we do what we can.

Now if His Highness deigns to follow me--" Count Muffat was already making for the dressing-room passage.

The really sharp downward slope of the stage had surprised him disagreeably, and he owed no small part of his present anxiety to a feeling that its boards were moving under his feet.

Through the open sockets gas was descried burning in the "dock." Human voices and blasts of air, as from a vault, came up thence, and, looking down into the depths of gloom, one became aware of a whole subterranean existence.

But just as the count was going up the stage a small incident occurred to stop him.


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