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Penguin Island

BOOK V
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It is Chatillon we want! Murder! Murder!" And in the gloomy alley the more prudent kept saying, "Don't push." Among these latter, in the darkness, his lofty figure rising above the moving crowd, his broad shoulders and robust body noticeable among the trampled limbs and crushed sides of the rest, stood the Prince des Boscenos, calm, immovable, and placid.

Serenely and indulgently he waited.

In the mean time, as the exit was opened at regular intervals between the ranks of the police, the pressure of elbows against the chests of those around the prince diminished and people began to breathe again.
"You see we shall soon be able to go out," said that kindly giant, with a pleasant smile.


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