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The Two Brothers

CHAPTER IX
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But there were other ties between them not less tightly knotted.

In the first place, Flore kept the house and managed all its business.

Jean-Jacques left everything to the crab-girl so completely that life without her would have seemed to him not only difficult, but impossible.

In every way, this woman had become the one need of his existence; she indulged all his fancies, for she knew them well.

He loved to see her bright face always smiling at him,--the only face that had ever smiled upon him, the only one to which he could look for a smile.


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