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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER XVII
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Dispose of me.

I will lay down my life, and will do what you wish." While he was speaking I saw the white curtain of the glazed partition behind him move a little.

His young wife, uneasy, was peeping through at us.
"Ah! my God," said I to him, "what we want is not the life of one man but the efforts of all." He was silent.

I continued,-- "Listen to me, Auguste, you who are good and intelligent.

So, then, the Faubourgs of Paris--which are heroes even when they err--the Faubourgs of Paris, for a misunderstanding, for a question of salary wrongly construed, for a bad definition of socialism, rose in June, 1848, against the Assembly elected by themselves, against universal suffrage, against their own vote; and yet they will not rise in December, 1851, for Right, for the Law, for the People, for Liberty, for the Republic.


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