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A CRIME RELINQUISHED.
Violette, mounted on one of those little nags which the farmers in the neighborhood of Paris use so much, soon appeared, wearing a round hat with a broad brim, beneath which his wood-colored face, deeply wrinkled, appeared in shadow.

His gray eyes, mischievous and lively, concealed in a measure the treachery of his nature.

His skinny legs, covered with gaiters of white linen which came to the knee, hung rather than rested in the stirrups, seemingly held in place by the weight of his hob-nailed shoes.

Above his jacket of blue cloth he wore a cloak of some coarse woollen stuff woven in black and white stripes.