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1 I  |    nights like this, hearing the beating of their hearts, mingling
2 III|          bee on the pendulum was beating like a heart, the heart
3 IV |        onion.~The mayor, who was beating time with his knife, cried: “
4 VI |         with one hand, continued beating him with the other.~Jeanne,
5 VI |         Have you almost finished beating that child?”~Julien turned
6 VII|          at times seemed to stop beating, and she gasped for breath.
7 VII|       sheets, and with her heart beating wildly. She could not speak,
8 X  | imploring him to stop, her heart beating with apprehension as she
9 XII|          as if her heart stopped beating; and yet she would have