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The Three Cities Trilogy

PREFACE
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My father and Abbe Froment have gone to the van to fetch the wheels; I am waiting for their return; they know how to fix them, and they will take me away all right, you may be sure of it." In the same way M.Sabathier and Brother Isidore did not desire to be moved until the crowd had decreased.

Madame de Jonquiere, who had taken charge of La Grivotte, also promised to see to Madame Vetu's removal in an ambulance vehicle.

And thereupon Sister Hyacinthe decided that she would go off at once so as to get everything ready at the hospital.
Moreover, she took with her both little Sophie Couteau and Elise Rouquet, whose face she very carefully wrapped up.

Madame Maze preceded them, while Madame Vincent, carrying her little girl, who was unconscious and quite white, struggled through the crowd, possessed by the fixed idea of running off as soon as possible and depositing the child in the Grotto at the feet of the Blessed Virgin.
The mob was now pressing towards the doorway by which passengers left the station, and to facilitate the egress of all these people it at last became necessary to open the luggage gates.

The _employes_, at a loss how to take the tickets, held out their caps, which a downpour of the little cards speedily filled.


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