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Saint Bartholomew’s Eve

CHAPTER 21: Escape
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You have eaten no food the last two days.
You walk about at night, instead of sleeping; and I have been expecting, every hour, that you would say to me, 'Pierre, we must go to Paris.'" "Will you go with me, Pierre ?" "How can you ask such a question ?" Pierre said, indignantly.

"Of course, if you go I go, too.

There is not much danger in the affair; and if there were, what then?
We have gone through plenty of it, together.

It will not be, now, as when we made our escape.
Then they were hunting down the Huguenots like mad dogs.

Now they think they have exterminated them in Paris, and will no longer be on the lookout for them.


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