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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 10: Preparations For A Rescue
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Even you, yourself, would scarcely know me." "I know you, now you have taken that hat off; but I own that I did not recognize you before, and thought for the moment that you were but a messenger.
"Please do not talk loud.

For aught I know, my servant has been bribed to act as a spy upon me, and may have her ear at the keyhole.

To tell you the truth, Jean, things are coming to a crisis at the club.

The violent party get more violent every day, and I am heartily sick of this butchers' work.

I feel that, at any moment, I may be denounced." "Then why on earth do you stay here, Jules?
Why don't you come and throw in your lot with us ?" "I should have laughed at the idea, a year ago," he said; "for at that time, although I objected strongly to the doings in Paris, I yet believed that much good would come of the changes.


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