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The Man With The Broken Ear

CHAPTER XX
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And in conclusion, I do not wish that my grandchildren, yet to be born, should be ignorant that the source of their blood is in the veins of Fougas.

Your Langevin is but an intruder who covertly slipped into my family.

A commissary! It's almost a sutler! I spurn under foot the ashes of Langevin!" His obstinacy would not yield to the arguments of Mme.

Renault, but it succumbed to the entreaties of Clementine.

The young creole twisted him around her finger with irresistible grace.
"My good Grandpa this, my pretty little Grandpa that; my old baby of a Grandpa, we'll send you off to college if you're not reasonable!" She used to seat herself familiarly on Fougas' knee, and give him little love pats on the cheeks.


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