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A Mummer’s Tale

CHAPTER IV
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And to think that I, too, in a moment, have to enter that aquarium.

Nanteuil, you must not stop longer than one season in this theatre.

One is drowned in it.

But look at them, look at them!" Durville was becoming almost ventriloqual in order to seem more solemn and more virile: "Peace, the abolition of the combined martial and civil law, and of conscription, higher pay for the troops; in the absence of funds, a few drafts on the bank, a few commissions suitably distributed, these are infallible means." Madame Doulce entered the box.

Unfastening her cloak with its pathetic lining of old rabbit-skin, she produced a small dog's-eared book.
"They are Madame de Sevigne's letters," she said.


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