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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: II. MAITRE MARC. The day on Which all these events ? namely, those in the house of the Widow Picaut, in the chateau de Souday, the forest of Touvois, and the farmhouse of Bankeuvre ? took place, the door of a house, No. 19 rue du Chateau, at Nantes, opened about five in the afternoon to give exit to two individuals, in one of whom we may recognize the civil commissioner Pascal, whose acquaintance we have already made at the chateau de Souday, and who, after leaving it, as we related, with the Duchesse de Berry, poor Bonne- ville, and the other Vendean leaders, had returned without difficulty to his official and private residence at Nantes. The other, and this is the one with whom we are for the present concerned, was a man about forty years of age, with a keen, intelligent, and penetrating eye, a curved nose, white teeth, thick and sensual lips, like those which commonly belong to imaginative persons; his black coat and white cravat and ribbon of. the Legion of honor indicated, so far as one might judge by appearances, a man belonging to the magistracy. He was, in truth, one of the most distinguished members of the Paris bar, who had arrived at Nantes the evening before and gone straight to the house of his associate, the civil commissioner. In the royalist vocabulary he bore the name of Marc, ?one of the several names of Cicero. When he reached the street door, conducted, as we have said, by the civil commissioner, he found a cabriolet awaiting him. The two men shook hands affectionately, and the Parisian lawyer got into the vehicle, while the driver, leaning over to the civil commissioner, asked him, as if aware that the traveller was ignorant on the subject: ? Where am I to take the gentleman ? Do you see that peasant at the farther end of the street on a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217594684 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217594689 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $21.61 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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