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The Merry Men

CHAPTER VIII
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'O, my son, my son!' And he sat down upon the hamper and sobbed like a little child.
'You will not go to Paris now,' said Jean-Marie sheepishly.
'Casimir,' said Desprez, raising his wet face, 'do you see that boy, that angel boy?
He is the thief; he took the treasure from a man unfit to be entrusted with its use; he brings it back to me when I am sobered and humbled.

These, Casimir, are the Fruits of my Teaching, and this moment is the Reward of my Life.' '_Tiens_,' said Casimir.
PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.LTD., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON Footnotes {5} Boggy.
{15} Clock {16} Enjoy.
{140} To come forrit--to offer oneself as a communicant.
{144} It was a common belief in Scotland that the devil appeared as a black man.

This appears in several witch trials and I think in Law's _Memorials_, that delightful store-house of the quaint and grisly.
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