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Ursula

CHAPTER I
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He was considered a clever agriculturist; but his knowledge was only practical.

In him the moral being did not belie the physical.

He seldom spoke, and before speaking he always took a pinch of snuff to give himself time, not to find ideas, but words.

If he had been a talker you would have felt that he was out of keeping with himself.

Reflecting that this elephant minus a trumpet and without a mind was called Minoret-Levrault, we are compelled to agree with Sterne as to the occult power of names, which sometimes ridicule and sometimes foretell characters.
In spite of his visible incapacity he had acquired during the last thirty-six years (the Revolution helping him) an income of thirty thousand francs, derived from farm lands, woods and meadows.


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