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Samuel Brohl & Company

CHAPTER V
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Thus she felt annoyance mingled with anger on receiving the following letter from M.
Moriaz: "DEAR MADAME: "You will be charmed to learn that I am extremely well.

My cheeks are full, my complexion florid, my legs as nimble as a chamois, my appetite like that of an ogre.

If ever you become anemic, which God forbid, you should set out forthwith for Saint Moritz, and I shall soon have good news from you.

Saint Moritz is a place where you find what you want, but you find, besides, what you do not want.

I do not speak of bears; I have not seen any, and should I meet one, I am strong enough to strangle it.
Besides, bears are taciturn animals, they never relate their histories, and the only animals I fear are those that have the gift of narrating, and that one is not allowed to strangle.


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