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The Man With The Broken Ear

CHAPTER I
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Master Bonnivet, our excellent neighbor, has not rested content with investing your funds in a good mortgage, but has also drawn up, in his leisure moments, a most edifying little indenture, which now lacks nothing but your signature.

Our worthy mayor has ordered, on your account, a new official scarf, which is on the way from Paris.

You will have the first benefit of it.

Your apartment (which will soon belong to a plural 'you') is elegant, in proportion to your present fortune.

You are to occupy....; but the house has changed so in three years, that my description would be incomprehensible to you.


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