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TWO HENS AND AN EGG.
M.de Tignonville was shaken by the fall, and in the usual course of things he would have lain where he was, and groaned.

But when a man has once turned his back on death he is apt to fancy it at his shoulder.

He has small stomach for surprises, and is in haste to set as great a distance as possible between the ugly thing and himself.

So it was with the Huguenot.