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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FOUR LETTERS. At night, as he undressed to go to bed, his hand felt in his coat pocket the parcel which he had picked up in the boulevard and forgotten. He thought that it would be as well to open it, as the packet might contain the girls' address, if it belonged to them, or in any case the necessary information to restore it to the person to whom it belonged. He opened the envelope, which was not sealed, and contained four letters, also unsealed. The addresses were on all four, and they exhaled a frightful perfume of tobacco. The first letter was addressed, ? To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, on the Square opposite the Chamber of Deputies. Marius said to himself that he would probably find the information he wanted, and as the letter was not sealed he could read it without impropriety. It was drawn up as follows: ? Madame La Marquise, ? The virtue of clemency and piety is that which unites sosiety most closely. Move your Christian feelings, and dain a glance of compasion at this unfortunate Spaniard, and victim to his loyalty and atachment to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who shed his blood, devoted thewhole of his fortune to defend this cause, and is now in the greatest misscry. He does not doubt that you, honnored lady, will grant some asistence to preserve an existence entirely painful for a soldier of honor and edducation, who is covered with wounds, and he reckons before hand on the humanity which anui- mates you, and the interest which your ladyship takes in so unhapy a nacion. Their prayer will not be in vain, and His gratitude will retain her charming memory. With the most respectful feelings, I have the honor to be, madame, Don Alvares, Spanish captain ofcamalry, a Royalist refugee in France, who is travelling for his c...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217497985 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217497985 |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $22.63 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 338 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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