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... asked . The answer is , that our civilized vices and weaknesses found food and solace in such large company . Paris shut out from Society ! That could not be the view of Paris : Society was shut out from us . The world beyond our ...
... asked . The answer is , that our civilized vices and weaknesses found food and solace in such large company . Paris shut out from Society ! That could not be the view of Paris : Society was shut out from us . The world beyond our ...
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... asking , " What news of Belle- ville ? or the army of the Loire ? " Now and then , a National Guardsman develops to an admiring audience a plan of his own for raising the siege : it is very simple - take 300,000 men , range them in a ...
... asking , " What news of Belle- ville ? or the army of the Loire ? " Now and then , a National Guardsman develops to an admiring audience a plan of his own for raising the siege : it is very simple - take 300,000 men , range them in a ...
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... asked by sentries or patrols . But while passing through the upper end of the village of Gentilly , which lies in a hollow near the fort , I was suddenly surrounded by a pack of wolfish - looking villagers , who raised the cry that I ...
... asked by sentries or patrols . But while passing through the upper end of the village of Gentilly , which lies in a hollow near the fort , I was suddenly surrounded by a pack of wolfish - looking villagers , who raised the cry that I ...
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... asked where I was going . I replied , " to the fort on a visit to an officer . " He asked me to follow him into the court - yard of the guard - house away from the crowd ; when I got there , he desired me to step into his room on the ...
... asked where I was going . I replied , " to the fort on a visit to an officer . " He asked me to follow him into the court - yard of the guard - house away from the crowd ; when I got there , he desired me to step into his room on the ...
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... asked him to take his pen and " verbalize . " He took the one I had just laid down , tried its point , and then changed it for another , with which he wrote out in his finest hand the usual formula employed in this kind of literature ...
... asked him to take his pen and " verbalize . " He took the one I had just laid down , tried its point , and then changed it for another , with which he wrote out in his finest hand the usual formula employed in this kind of literature ...
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