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The Three Cities Trilogy

PREFACE
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We will see." Then he asked for the documents concerning La Grivotte.

But they could not be found among all the papers heaped together on the tables.

The young seminarists who acted as secretaries began turning everything over; and the superintendent of the piscinas who sat in their midst himself had to get up to see if these documents were in the "canterbury." At last, when he had sat down again, he found them under the register which lay open before him.

Among them were three medical certificates which he read aloud.

All three of them agreed in stating that the case was one of advanced phthisis, complicated by nervous incidents which invested it with a peculiar character.
Doctor Bonamy wagged his head as though to say that such an _ensemble_ of testimony could leave no room for doubt.


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