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La-bas

CHAPTER VII
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For a person customarily so reserved, she seems to me to have become quite enthusiastic about you, does Mme.Chantelouve.Why, what's the matter ?" he exclaimed, seeing how red Durtal had become.
"Oh, nothing, but I've got to be going.

Good night." "Why, aren't you feeling well ?" "Oh, it's nothing, I assure you." "Oh, well," said Des Hermies, knowing better than to insist.

"Look at this," and took him into the kitchen and showed him a superb leg of mutton hanging beside the window.

"I hung it up in a draft so as to get some of the crass freshness out of it.

We'll eat it when we have the astrologer Gevingey to dine with us at Carhaix's.


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