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The Three Cities Trilogy

BOOK I
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There you have Sagnier and Fonsegue: just compare them a bit.

In reality they are birds of the same feather: each has a quill and uses it.
But how different the systems and the results.

Sagnier's print is really a sewer which rolls him along and carries him to the cesspool; while the other's paper is certainly an example of the best journalism one can have, most carefully written, with a real literary flavour, a treat for readers of delicate minds, and an honour to the man who directs it.

But at the bottom, good heavens! in both cases the farce is precisely the same!" Massot burst out laughing, well pleased with this final thrust.

Then all at once: "Ah! here's Fonsegue at last!" said he.
Quite at his ease, and still laughing, he forthwith introduced the priest.


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