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White Lies

CHAPTER IX
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You see I was stiff, confined so long.

He gave me a thrust of his bayonet; I flung my heavy keys fiercely in his face; he staggered; I wrested his piece from him, and disabled him." "Ah!" "I crossed the frontier in the night, and got to Bayonne; and thence, day and night, to Paris.

There I met a reward for all my anguish.

They gave me the epaulets of a colonel.

See, here they are.


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