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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER XIV
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12 P.M .-- Bed.

They nail up the coffins in the room just over mine every night, and the tap, tap, tap, as they drive in the nails, is the pleasing music which lulls me to sleep.

Now, I ask, after having endured this sort of thing day after day for three months, can I be expected to admire Geist, Germany, or Mr.
Matthew Arnold?
I sigh for a revolution, for a bombardment, for an assault, for anything which would give us a day's excitement.
I enclose you Gambetta's latest pigeon despatch.

His style is so grandiloquently vague that we can make neither head nor tail of it.

We cannot imagine what has become of Aurelles de Paladine and of the army of Keratry.


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