Unawares: A Story of an Old French Town
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“You might tell us something, Madame Angelin, since you know so much!”
“Yes, indeed. What is the good of knowing if you keep it to yourself?” cried a younger woman, impatiently, placing, as she spoke, her basket of herbs and vegetables upon the broad stone edge of the fountain around which a little group had gathered.
“Was it a fit?”
“Has Monsieur Deshoulières gone to him?”
“Is he dead?”
“What becomes of her?”
“Holy Virgin! will the town have to bury him?”
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