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1 I   |   rest.~The two women did not listen. Torpid with comfort and
2 I   |   cleaning—too stupid even to listen at the door.~The lawyer
3 VII |    repeated:~“Mother, mother, listen to me. It is not true. I
4 VII |      No, I swear it. Besides, listen, if you go away I will enlist
5 VII |       way to emotions. First, listen to me. If I were ever to
6 VII |       held him off.~“Leave me—listen; I still have so much to
7 VII |      world to me for so long! Listen, my boy, before God, who
8 VIII| Roland. Pierre, as he did not listen, did not hear. But he presently
9 IX  |      his desertion, would not listen to him, and he ended by