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1 1 |    the Seine, several leagues from Paris, and went out there
2 16|      about two hundred metres from the railway bridge.~
3 20|     were making huge lurches, from bank to bank of the river,
4 21|   this chain, or detaching it from the boat, for it was massive
5 23|       black patches rising up from it towards the sky, which
6 23|      thought of swimming away from the place. But then, again,
7 24|    before finding a spot free from grasses and rushes where
8 28| longed to do so. I delayed it from moment to moment. I said
9 28|    travellers on their return from distant lands, whom we listen